The Carriers of the Press to Their Patrons, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame The likeness carries the careful

The likeness carries the careful gravity of a soldier still answering for a battle the army would never quite forgive him for

Washington Monument 1844 renders the obelisk in its earliest ambition

The Celestial Mechanics of Light and Shadow — Part A — a Victorian astronomical plate where the eclipse becomes geometry and geometry becomes prayer

Spirit of the Union 1861

their elliptical chains drawn taut against the firmament

The Carriers of the Press to Their Patrons, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame The likeness carries the carefulThe Carriers of the Press to Their Patrons, 19th Century a New Year's broadside in the old newsboy tradition, where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin, a nod, a small acknowledgment of the year's faithful ink. 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