Ulysses S. Grant 1892 old_map_Jacksonville The Keepers Vigil — Lighthouse

The Keepers Vigil — Lighthouse Lantern Room Architectural Blueprint renders the lantern-room geometry with the obsessive precision of an engineer who knew a Fresnel apparatus is only as true as the iron cradle beneath it

Progress of the Race

Iowa Des Moines arrives where the Raccoon meets the Des Moines River

The plate keeps its long watch over those slow

Portraits of McKinley

Ulysses S. Grant 1892 old_map_Jacksonville The Keepers Vigil — LighthouseUlysses S. Grant 1892 a posthumous likeness of the general turned president issued seven years after his death, when the country was still negotiating what to make of the man who had accepted Lee's sword and then stumbled through two terms in the White House. The portrait belongs to that long aftermath, the work of remembrance done in lithograph ink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library