Camp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW Size:24x18 rendered at a moment when

rendered at a moment when the young republic was still learning to receive the world's old courts — Ottoman robes inked with the careful curiosity of a nation testing its diplomatic reach

all riveted spires and zigzag crowns reaching skyward in the manner the Chrysler and Empire State taught a generation of draftsmen to draw

Capitulation of Vera Cruz: the Mexican Soldiers Marching Out and Surrendering — a documentary engraving of Scott's 1847 siege ending in formal procession

The likeness carries that peculiar Whig stillness

Camp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW Size:24x18 rendered at a moment whenCamp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW a documentary view of canvas rows pitched in a city park, the down east volunteers under Marshall's command holding the Chesapeake's nervous border while the Republic measured its own loyalty in regiments. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional