Chicago 1871 historic canvas when the question of whether

when the question of whether a republic could legislate thirst was still very much open

The Croce Atomizer Patent — a Study in Vapor and Vanity 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

1866 — a presidential portrait of the Tennessee tailor who inherited Lincoln's chair and the wreckage of the Union

an engraving where the terminator becomes theology — that trembling line where lunar day surrenders to lunar night

Chicago 1871 historic canvas when the question of whetherChicago 1871 a document of the year the city burned, when the lake wind carried embers across wooden boulevards and three hundred souls were lost to a fire that began, so legend insisted, in a barn on DeKoven Street. The image belongs to the smoldering ledger of an American metropolis learning to rebuild in brick and iron. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National