Daniel D. Barnard, Representative From New York, 1843 old N America map Each plate burns at the

Each plate burns at the seam where heliography met natural theology — the firmament as furnace

Arms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 — a heraldic engraving tracing the General's ancestral line back through English gentry

where Beaux-Arts terminals

the South still smoldering beneath federal occupation

the republic catching its breath

Daniel D. Barnard, Representative From New York, 1843 old N America map Each plate burns at theDaniel D. Barnard, Representative From New York, 1843 a Whig portrait engraving of the Albany lawyer and orator at mid career in the House, his likeness drawn in the measured line reserved for men who believed the Union could be argued into permanence. 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 publishers