when the President's face had already begun its slow erosion into the gaunt
when the empire he once attended in Vienna had already dissolved into the unwelcome new geography of postwar Europe
Grant and His Generals: Distinguished Commanders in the Campaign Against Richmond assembles the Union high command as a single iconographic chorus — the men who pressed the long
General Washington at Christ Church
every brick laid in the currency of Gilded Age ascendancy
City Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 fresno_vintage when the President's face hadCity Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 surveys lower Manhattan at the close of the century, the old Federal style hall hemmed in by the rising commercial blocks of a city already outgrowing its civic heart. A documentary view rendered with the surveyor's patience for cornices, awnings, and the ordinary geometry of municipal life. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the