Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney vintage alaska map its new steel-frame towers crowding

its new steel-frame towers crowding the skyline above Broad and Market with the unembarrassed vertical ambition of American capital learning what height could mean

in McClellan's own dispatch

Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 — a Centennial-era engraving rendering the Kentucky woodsman as armed patriarch

Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 gathers the Union's martyred and triumphant in a single commemorative tableau

Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney vintage alaska map its new steel-frame towers crowdingDiagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney a draftsman lawyer's attempt to render the Republic legible, its branches and powers diagrammed like the schematic of a machine that had just survived being torn apart and was now being explained back to itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical