Emancipation 1867 gift_for_optician when a bartender's apparatus was

when a bartender's apparatus was as carefully chosen as his bottle list

the republic's familiar pantheon arranged shoulder to shoulder as if convened for a single sober daguerreotype of national memory

where prairie meets Rockies and every vista was worth a two-cent stamp

where the Douglas and Stanton hospitals took in the maimed harvest of Grant's Overland Campaign

before Antietam

Emancipation 1867 gift_for_optician when a bartender's apparatus wasEmancipation 1867. Two years past Appomattox, the engraver's allegory arrives in the long shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment broken shackles and rising figures rendered with the civic earnestness of a republic still arguing, in Congress and in print, what freedom was actually going to mean. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical