Illustrated Album of Baltimore City and Vicinity 1872 Frame Style:Ebony Frame when the men who fed

when the men who fed America's furnaces organized their grievances into something the operators could no longer ignore — solidarity rendered in the formal type of a movement still finding its language

when aviation and Manhattan's vertical ambition seemed cut from the same alloy

hauling down a Confederate flag from the Marshall House

Emancipation 1865 — a commemorative print marking the year the Thirteenth Amendment passed through Congress and into the soil of a republic remade

gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory

Illustrated Album of Baltimore City and Vicinity 1872 Frame Style:Ebony Frame when the men who fedIllustrated Album of Baltimore City and Vicinity 1872 surveys the harbor city seven years past Appomattox, its rowhouses and church spires rendered in the patient lithography of a republic relearning how to admire itself. Each plate is a quiet inventory of brick, masts, and monument Baltimore as it wished to be remembered. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National