Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print the Wonder Wheel turning against

the Wonder Wheel turning against a linen sky

Pairs naturally with other documents from the Bella Frye Curious pillar — celestial atlases

and the artifacts of American local memory

where the draftsman's lines trace the cylindrical shell and lantern-room geometry of a sentinel built to weather hurricanes no keeper could outrun

rendered with the formal restraint owed a man who had served as Navy Secretary before returning to the chamber's marble acoustics of nullification

Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print the Wonder Wheel turning againstArmy and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 a documentary engraving of the granite shaft rising on Boston Common just seven years after Appomattox, when the city's masons were still translating grief into civic stone and the dead into allegorical figures. 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