Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the briny shimmer of

and the briny shimmer of the lake itself

with Alcyone at their center

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before the whiskers and the war — Lincoln rendered with the smooth jaw of a Springfield circuit rider

Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the briny shimmer ofBird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 a documentary engraving of the Potomac quay at the height of the war, rendered when the wharf was less a port than an artery, pumping troops and quartermaster's freight into a capital bracing itself against the Confederacy across the river. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional