John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, 19th Century Old_Washington_Map Douglas and Herschel V

Douglas and Herschel V

The Barbers Edge Sheffield Razor Strop Patent is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

Grant 1866 catches the victor of Appomattox in the strange interval before the presidency — still in epaulets

and finding the soul outranked by Saturn

devoted stars that orbit one another across unfathomable distance

John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, 19th Century Old_Washington_Map Douglas and Herschel VJohn Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, 19th Century a portrait of the Union admiral whose name lived twice over: once on the bottle shaped guns that armed the federal navy, and again on the deck of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charleston. 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 (Currier