Brigadier General Irvin McDowell, US Army, 19th Century nautical wall art Mead & White imposed on

Mead & White imposed on the bluff

The image carries the careful dignity of a man who would rather be Chief Justice than President

23rd Street — a vintage Manhattan tableau lingering at the crossroads where Broadway grazes the Flatiron's prow

The Keepers Blueprint Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse Engineering Study reads like a draftsman's quiet reckoning with the Chesapeake's shallow

his likeness rendered in the careful gravity reserved for those who carried Manifest Destiny's confidence and its rot in equal measure

Brigadier General Irvin McDowell, US Army, 19th Century nautical wall art Mead & White imposed onBrigadier General Irvin McDowell, US Army, 19th Century the commander who carried the Union into the disaster at Bull Run, rendered here in the formal portraiture of a man whose epaulets outlasted his reputation, the war's first burdened general staring back across the long ledger of blame. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical