Birds Eye View of the City of Columbia South Carolina 1872 Size:24x18 when the empire he once

when the empire he once attended in Vienna had already dissolved into the unwelcome new geography of postwar Europe

George Washington 1892 — a late-century homage struck nearly a hundred years after the General's death

Pictorial History of the United States 1846 arrives at the high tide of Manifest Destiny

a turn-of-the-century exercise in civic remembrance that treats the flag less as cloth than as a chronicle of the nation that raised it

Bella Frye sources lighthouse drawings from American maritime archives — the U

Birds Eye View of the City of Columbia South Carolina 1872 Size:24x18 when the empire he onceBirds Eye View of the City of Columbia South Carolina 1872 renders the Palmetto capital from an impossible aerial perch just seven years after Sherman's torches left it in ash a lithographer's quiet argument that the grid had been redrawn, the streets renumbered, and the South was being mapped back into the Union. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,