Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame an act of Gilded Age

an act of Gilded Age remembrance dressed as biography

fresh from negotiating the Webster-Ashburton Treaty

before the whiskers and the war — Lincoln rendered with the smooth jaw of a Springfield circuit rider

Coffins Patches Lighthouse Blueprint Maritime Architecture of the Florida Reef reads like a draftsman's quiet argument with the sea — a skeletal iron screw-pile driven into living coral

and the long arithmetic of casualty lists

Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame an act of Gilded AgeBird'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