Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892 deep sky art paused to render its officeholders

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

its new steel-frame towers crowding the skyline above Broad and Market with the unembarrassed vertical ambition of American capital learning what height could mean

Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s-1930s) — greetings cards

The Expired Planet Victorian Lunar Death Portrait renders the Moon as a corpse on a slab — a selenographic study from the age when astronomers mapped lunar craters with the gravity of coroners

when a younger republic was busy canonizing its founders in ink and bookplate as it argued over what their union was now for

Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892 deep sky art paused to render its officeholdersMemorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892. A Lost Cause commemorative printed nearly three decades after Appomattox, when veterans' associations were busy carving granite and ink alike into the long elegy of remembrance, casting defeated soldiers as martyrs in the South's gathering myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National