Chicago 1871 framed bureaucrat Storming of the Heights at

Storming of the Heights at Monterey by the American Army

when Foote's ironclad flotilla churned up the Tennessee River and shelled the half-drowned Confederate works into submission before Grant's infantry ever arrived

a portrait of the New York Central's chief orator at the height of his Gilded Age influence

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848

Chicago 1871 framed bureaucrat Storming of the Heights atChicago 1871 a document of the year the city burned, when the lake wind carried embers across wooden boulevards and three hundred souls were lost to a fire that began, so legend insisted, in a barn on DeKoven Street. The image belongs to the smoldering ledger of an American metropolis learning to rebuild in brick and iron. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National