Great Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 Size:24x18 leading German-speaking volunteers into a

leading German-speaking volunteers into a war fought in a borrowed tongue

where wrought-iron fire escapes stack tenement facades like opera tiers above the awnings and hand-lettered signs

thought it was worth filing

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

and the long Atlantic shoreline were printed in the postcard idiom of summer crowds

Great Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 Size:24x18 leading German-speaking volunteers into aGreat Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 a documentary engraving of the 1849 Astor Place catastrophe, when a feud between Edwin Forrest's partisans and the English tragedian Macready spilled into the street and the militia answered with musketry. Class resentment dressed as a theater quarrel, and the cobblestones remembered. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive