Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print or any room built around

or any room built around the idea that small things deserve careful attention

and copper seam drawn with the patience of a profession that measured success by the proof

rendered with the formal restraint owed a man who had served as Navy Secretary before returning to the chamber's marble acoustics of nullification

when photography and lithography were enlisted in the slow

where the draftsman's lines trace the cylindrical shell and lantern-room geometry of a sentinel built to weather hurricanes no keeper could outrun

Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print or any room built aroundArmy and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 a documentary engraving of the granite shaft rising on Boston Common just seven years after Appomattox, when the city's masons were still translating grief into civic stone and the dead into allegorical figures. 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 lithographic publishers