Brooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864: Interior View of the Academy of Music as Seen From the Dress Circle mucha style print Andrew Jackson 1860 — a

Andrew Jackson 1860 — a posthumous portrait of Old Hickory issued as the Union itself began to crack

courthouse square

devoted stars that orbit one another across unfathomable distance

all sash and slogan and stiff-collared resolve

Captain Wilkes 1862 — a portrait of the Union officer whose seizure of Confederate envoys from the British mail packet Trent the previous November had nearly dragged Lincoln's beleaguered republic into a second war

Brooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864: Interior View of the Academy of Music as Seen From the Dress Circle mucha style print Andrew Jackson 1860 — aBrooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864: Interior View of the Academy of Music as Seen From the Dress Circle renders the war's home front theater in tiered detail bunting, balconies, and the crowd assembled to raise dollars for Union wounded, their charity dressed in the same opera house where the city had lately come to be entertained. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National