Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 oncologist_gift_idea and the artifacts of American

and the artifacts of American urban memory

the republic catching its breath

each visage rendered with the solemn finish that the nineteenth century reserved for men it wished to remember

with a single broadside

Lyon glares from the frame in the months before Wilson's Creek

Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 oncologist_gift_idea and the artifacts of AmericanArmy 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