Spokane Memorial Stadium Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Old John Brown's Career Illustrated

Old John Brown's Career Illustrated 1860 traces the abolitionist's incendiary path in panel after panel — Pottawatomie to Harpers Ferry — a documentary engraving that treats the man as both prophet and powder keg in the year the Union began to fracture in earnest

19th Century — a later engraved portrait of the Pennsylvania delegate whose loyalties soured before independence was signed

Battle of Bull Run

1899 surveys lower Manhattan at the close of the century

Spokane Memorial Stadium Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Old John Brown's Career IllustratedSpokane Memorial Stadium arrives in the roar of Saturday crowds packed along the Spokane River, grandstands rising against a backdrop of pine dark hills and the brick smokestacks of the Inland Empire's rail town. Pennants snap above the bleachers, autumn light gilding the field a monument to civic pride and gridiron glory preserved in linen postcards from the golden age. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard