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These are postcards written from a city built to be photographed

Harbor of Ambition: Lower Manhattan's Gilded Gateway frames the southern tip of the island in its full mercantile swagger — a harbor bristling with masts and steam stacks

Every brace and disc foundation is drawn with the patience of a man who knew the Florida reef takes ships the way salt takes iron

Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 — a mourning lithograph that compresses a life into two dates and a title

his gaunt face already carrying the ledger of a republic at war with itself

Declaration of Independence and Its Signers large World map These are postcards written fromDeclaration of Independence and Its Signers assembles the fifty six men who put their names to treason, the parchment's cadence and their gathered portraits arranged as a single act of nerve ink committed to paper while the outcome of the war was still anyone's guess. 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