The Victoria Affair Midtown Secrets in Art Deco Splendor unfolds like a scene clipped from a 1929 society column — chrome setbacks and zigzag spandrels rising above a Midtown sidewalk where the Hotel Victoria's revolving doors keep the rumors moving
gathering the green banners and brass of the Irish Brigade into a single civic tribute
Afro American Monument 1897 renders in commemorative engraving the long civic argument over Black memory in the post-war republic — a tableau of figures
Emancipation Proclamation — Lincoln's executive stroke of January 1863
Portrait of Alexander Campbell 1862 sits the sitter squarely in the war's second year
Fort Anderson, Paducah, Kentucky and the Camp of the 6th Illinois Cavalry, April 1862 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Victoria Affair Midtown SecretsFort Anderson, Paducah, Kentucky and the Camp of the 6th Illinois Cavalry, April 1862 a documentary view of the Ohio River garrison that anchored Grant's western flank, its picketed tents and earthworks drawn with the patient hand of a soldier who knew the war was only beginning to find its shape. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical