The Columbus Genealogical Tree of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill. 1893 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame humid light the postcard printers

humid light the postcard printers loved to chase

just as the Whigs sharpened their knives for the log-cabin election

an engraving where the terminator becomes theology — that trembling line where lunar day surrenders to lunar night

Robert Edward Lee 1877 — a posthumous likeness of the Confederate general issued seven years after his death at Lexington

A Lower East Side tableau caught between immigrant commerce and turn-of-the-century ornament

The Columbus Genealogical Tree of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill. 1893 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame humid light the postcard printersThe Columbus Genealogical Tree of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill. 1893. Drafted for the fair that announced America to itself, this commemorative chart traces the Admiral's bloodline as if lineage itself were an exhibit Chicago dressing the four hundredth anniversary of landfall in the ornamented confidence of a republic flush with new wealth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the