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It is astronomy as catechism

and real-photo postcards of sod-house homesteads holding their ground against a horizon that refuses to end

the presidential box rendered in the same careful line as the playbill

The Pelstring Beer Cooling Apparatus Patent Print is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

Belle Isle Opposite Richmond Va 1866 framed cartographer The parlor here is aBelle Isle Opposite Richmond Va 1866 a documentary view of the James River island whose name still carried the weight of its prison stockades, photographed the year after Appomattox when the Confederate capital across the water lay in ruins and the work of remembrance had only just begun. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical