Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Size:24x18 The scene burns with the

The scene burns with the terrible clarity of a war the lithographers knew would close one empire and christen another

cataloged in linen and real-photo postcards from the early devotional era

The image carries the quiet of a domestic threshold that history would soon refuse to leave alone

and the unshakable human desire to soar

drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base

Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Size:24x18 The scene burns with theCapitol of Michigan, Lansing 19th Century. A documentary engraving of the statehouse rising from the cleared pine country of central Michigan, its dome and pediments rendered with the civic seriousness of a young capital announcing that frontier timber towns could, in time, govern themselves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical