Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 vintage american Issued the year after Guiteau's

Issued the year after Guiteau's bullet ended his brief tenure

elevated from the Senate chamber the year Polk's war closed and the slavery question began its slow scald through Pennsylvania's anthracite politics

The draftsman's lines trace not just a structure but a descent

Armoured Steel Cruiser New York

rendering the chaos of those three November days into orderly ridgelines and disciplined regimental colors

Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 vintage american Issued the year after Guiteau'sBird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 a documentary engraving of the Potomac quay at the height of the war, rendered when the wharf was less a port than an artery, pumping troops and quartermaster's freight into a capital bracing itself against the Confederacy across the river. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional