Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 grit_definition A campaign portrait of the

A campaign portrait of the Customs House collector turned running mate to Garfield — the side-whiskered machine politician rendered in respectable lithographic gravity

the other warning what it would cost to keep it whole as the slavery question began its slow boil toward fracture

William Henry Harrison 1840 — a campaign portrait of the log-cabin candidate

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre

California Hollywood arrives in linen-postcard pastels and lithographed glamour — palm-lined boulevards

Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 grit_definition A campaign portrait of theBirds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 surveys the Quaker City a year before the Centennial, its grid of row houses and church spires drawn from an imagined altitude where the Delaware bends and Fairmount sprawls a lithographer's claim that the republic's first capital had grown into something worth measuring from above. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National