The American Union 1861 Size:18x24 New York Coney Island arrives

New York Coney Island arrives in a salt-bright clatter of Steeplechase horses

of the Magnolia Building rising over a prairie city that traded longhorns for skyscrapers in a single generation

conjured from perturbation before any eye confirmed it

and tobacco-warehouse facades softened by linen ink

frigid orbits

The American Union 1861 Size:18x24 New York Coney Island arrivesThe American Union 1861 a title printed in the very year the Union ceased to be one, the words themselves an act of stubborn cartographic faith. The lithograph belongs to that anxious season when broadsides argued for a country still legally whole and visibly fracturing. 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