John Charles Frémont 1861 framed World map briefly the tallest building on

briefly the tallest building on earth and a granite advertisement for the Loop's vertical ambitions on the eve of the Columbian Exposition

the ink still warm with the work of remembrance after a war that nearly unmade the experiment

and a republic forced to read its own grief by gaslight

the regimental colors arranged with the staged bravado of a republic discovering it could project force across two oceans at once

USS Frigate Constitution Old Ironsides 1896 — a late-century rendering of the republic's most stubborn warship

John Charles Frémont 1861 framed World map briefly the tallest building onJohn Charles Frmont 1861 the Pathfinder rendered in his second act, no longer the explorer of western passes but the Union general whose Missouri emancipation order ran ahead of Lincoln's caution and cost him his command. 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 (Currier & Ives, Kurz & Allison,