Army and Navy Monument on the Boston Common, Erected 1877 large Boston map the country still tearing itself

the country still tearing itself toward something

Commemorate the Services of Irish American Valor Loyalty and Devotion 1891 — a chromolithograph in the post-war key of remembrance

a face the republic studied while it tried to stitch itself back together

An Acknowledgment From the Delegates to the Philadelphia Commercial Museum

A collection plate for the cataract that made tourism American

Army and Navy Monument on the Boston Common, Erected 1877 large Boston map the country still tearing itselfArmy and Navy Monument on the Boston Common, Erected 1877 a granite shaft raised on the Common a dozen years after Appomattox, photographed in the careful civic hush of a city learning how to mourn its dead in stone, allegory, and bronze relief. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier