Brigadier General Louis Blenker, First Regiment German Rifles, 19th Century large Panama map and the namesake stone outcrop

and the namesake stone outcrop that gave the city its quiet

Discover our beautifully framed vintage maps

000-year-old obelisk in its improbable Central Park exile

the Reflecting Pool's long mirror

Every gilded balustrade and velvet-draped tier reads as a sermon to the silent-screen era — devotion rendered in plasterwork

Brigadier General Louis Blenker, First Regiment German Rifles, 19th Century large Panama map and the namesake stone outcropBrigadier General Louis Blenker, First Regiment German Rifles, 19th Century. Blenker came to the Union cause already an exile of failed European revolutions, and the portrait carries that double weight a forty eighter in a federal uniform, leading German speaking volunteers into a war fought in a borrowed tongue. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,