Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art where four centuries after Columbus

where four centuries after Columbus the republic dressed its industrial muscle in Beaux-Arts plaster and called the result a New World

when Ned Hanlan's stroke could empty a city and Toronto Bay glittered with the wagers of two nations watching their oarsmen as carefully as their generals

a lithographer's roll call printed in the war's second year — when McClellan still loomed largest and the names beside him had not yet been sorted by victory or disgrace

Ford Field Original Artwork from Bella Frye

his fortune already passing into civic legend

Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art where four centuries after ColumbusHeroes of the War 1891 a commemorative lithograph assembled a generation after Appomattox, when the Union's surviving generals had hardened into bronze and lithographic ink, their faces arranged in the careful gridwork of a republic still negotiating who, exactly, deserved remembering. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,