Family Chart for the United States 1835 antique map jamaica the marquees and newspaper towers

the marquees and newspaper towers of Times Square caught mid-blaze in that peculiar Manhattan dusk when the bulbs outshone the stars

every rivet and bulkhead drawn with the gravity of someone who knew the weight of water overhead

These are the postcards of Santa Fe Railway depots

and the natural patina of a document that has lived for nearly two hundred and fifty years

rendered with the studied gravity reserved for men who had already begun composing their own legend

Family Chart for the United States 1835 antique map jamaica the marquees and newspaper towersFamily Chart for the United States 1835 diagrams the young republic as a household ledger Jackson's America rendered as lineage, with the branches of government and the roster of states arranged like names in a Bible's flyleaf, confident in a union not yet asked to prove itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the