Commander Selfridge on His Return Reconnaissance Into the Interior of Darien Frame Style:Verdigris Frame its allegorical title insisting on

its allegorical title insisting on a principle that Reconstruction was already conceding in practice

The lithograph belongs to that quieter chapter of remembrance

an early printing that bound the articles and their first amendments into a single civic scripture while the ink of ratification was still fresh

the war two decades behind him and the pen still moving

The image trades in prophecy: the rebel colors torn

Commander Selfridge on His Return Reconnaissance Into the Interior of Darien Frame Style:Verdigris Frame its allegorical title insisting onCommander Selfridge on His Return Reconnaissance Into the Interior of Darien documents the U. S. Navy's survey for an isthmian canal route through the Panamanian jungle, an engraving in which Selfridge's bedraggled column emerges from the green interior with the haunted air of men who measured a continent and found it unwilling. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the