Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 1877 little rock art rendered in the documentary hand

rendered in the documentary hand of an era still cataloguing what it had already overrun

the Brooklyn Bridge strung like a harp over the East River

Burns Monument

and answered to a doubting century

George Stoneman 19th Century — the Union cavalry commander rendered in the sober tonalities of a wartime portrait

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 1877 little rock art rendered in the documentary handBrotherhood of Locomotive Engineers 1877 a fraternal chromolithograph from the year the rails themselves caught fire, when the Great Strike paralyzed half the country and the men who drove the iron horses pressed their case in oil soaked solidarity. The imagery speaks in the visual grammar of the lodge: regalia, locomotive, and the dignity of labor newly armed with a charter. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American