Camp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW Size:24x18 all riveted spires and zigzag

all riveted spires and zigzag crowns reaching skyward in the manner the Chrysler and Empire State taught a generation of draftsmen to draw

The Cosmic Mirror Smith's Celestial Sphere With Earth at Center places our small blue world at the heart of a gridded firmament

The scene carries the quiet swagger of Manifest Destiny extended to saltwater — a treaty port rendered as overture rather than conquest

The likeness carries that peculiar Whig stillness

and the weight of a country at war with itself became the visual shorthand for the Union itself

Camp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW Size:24x18 all riveted spires and zigzagCamp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW a documentary view of canvas rows pitched in a city park, the down east volunteers under Marshall's command holding the Chesapeake's nervous border while the Republic measured its own loyalty in regiments. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional