In Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and the briny shimmer of

and the briny shimmer of the lake itself

rendered in the antebellum hunger for origin stories — Plymouth Rock conscripted into the iconography of a republic still arguing with itself over what kind of nation it meant to be

Camp Meigs 1861 — a documentary view from the first feverish summer of the war

The scene reads like a society column rendered in silver gelatin

as the tallest thing humankind had ever bolted to the sky

In Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and the briny shimmer ofIn Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 a commemorative print marking the fall of Richmond and Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the two April mornings that closed the ledger on four years of national bloodletting. The engraver's laurel is fresh, the ink still triumphant, before the country had time to learn what peace would cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive