City of New York 1856 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame drawn by hands that sensed

drawn by hands that sensed the Union fraying and looked to Valley Forge for proof that suffering could still be ennobled into nationhood

expansion rendered in the sober line of a presidency that promised one term and meant it

and the Pacific breaking white along Santa Monica's pier

smoke unfurling against a sky already going to ruin

City of New York 1856 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame drawn by hands that sensedCity of New York 1856. A mid century prospect of Manhattan rendered just before the storm the harbor crowded with packet ships and the gridded streets advancing northward, charted with the swaggering certainty of a metropolis convinced its commerce could outrun the country's unraveling. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,