Great Fire at St. Louis, MO, Thursday Night May 17th 1849 alligator reef art its iron legs threaded into

its iron legs threaded into the bay floor and its lantern room drawn with the patient precision of a draftsman who knew the Bay would test every joint

The Grand Repository New York Public Library Postcard renders the Beaux-Arts colossus on Fifth Avenue in the full pomp of its Carrère & Hastings glory — Patience and Fortitude couchant at the steps

The Keepers Vigil — Lighthouse Lantern Room Architectural Blueprint renders the lantern-room geometry with the obsessive precision of an engineer who knew a Fresnel apparatus is only as true as the iron cradle beneath it

Life of George Washington

Female Seminary Nashville Tenn Barracks of the 51st Regt OVI March 1862

Great Fire at St. Louis, MO, Thursday Night May 17th 1849 alligator reef art its iron legs threaded intoGreat Fire at St. Louis, MO, Thursday Night May 17th 1849 a documentary lithograph of the steamboat White Cloud's blaze devouring the levee, fifteen blocks of a frontier boomtown rendered as inferno on the eve of the cholera summer that would compound the ruin. 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 lithographic