General John Alexander Logan Family 1887 Size:36x24 hollow-eyed manner the engravers favored

hollow-eyed manner the engravers favored late

The Celestial Shadow Mechanics Victorian Eclipse Diagram charts the geometry of occultation with the gravitas of a theological proof — umbra and penumbra traced in the patient hand of an astronomer who believed the moon's transit across the sun was less an event than a sentence spoken in the old grammar of the firmament

Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor 1846 — a mid-century lithograph rendering the 1773 harbor raid for an audience seventy years removed

the general and the Natick cobbler bound together for another four years of Reconstruction's grinding work

General John Alexander Logan Family 1887 Size:36x24 hollow-eyed manner the engravers favoredGeneral John Alexander Logan Family 1887 a domestic portrait of the Union general and Illinois senator gathered with his kin the year after his death, the fierce architect of Memorial Day softened here into patriarch, the household composed in that particular Gilded Age stillness reserved for men whose public lives had just become memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,