Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 connecticut postcard paused to render its officeholders

paused to render its officeholders in the sober dignity of lithographed ranks

The commemorative plate reads as ledger and echo

The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

stars and stripes arranged less as decoration than as a creed pressed flat against the page

Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 connecticut postcard paused to render its officeholdersUnion Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 a documentary photograph from the heights above Chattanooga, where Federal troops posed against the long Tennessee horizon in the autumn the war turned. The image carries the stillness of men between battles, the river below them already a Union artery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional