Death of Harrison, April 4, 1841 tacoma_old_map A nocturne for a future

A nocturne for a future that never quite arrived

The Hatteras Lantern Room Blueprint — Guardian of the Graveyard of the Atlantic drafted for the tallest brick sentinel on the American coast

The Crown Cork Conspiracy Painters Revolutionary Seal captures one of those workhorse innovations that quietly defined how a glass of beer got from cellar to tap — a piece of equipment whose elegance was invisible to the drinker

Ink doing what armies had not yet finished

the marquees and newspaper towers of Times Square caught mid-blaze in that peculiar Manhattan dusk when the bulbs outshone the stars

Death of Harrison, April 4, 1841 tacoma_old_map A nocturne for a futureDeath of Harrison, April 4, 1841 a mourning print marking the first president to die in office, just thirty one days after that interminable inaugural address in the cold. The Whig triumph of 1840 collapsed into black crepe before the cabinet had fully unpacked. 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