Emlenton, Venango County, Pennsylvania 1897 framed solar print The lithograph holds him in

The lithograph holds him in the narrow window between proclamation and reelection

when Allen — old Jacksonian

1861 — the same star-shaped bastion that outlasted British rockets in 1814 now turned its guns inward

when shoulder straps were still fresh and the ledgers of recruits ran heavy with foreign tongues

Emlenton, Venango County, Pennsylvania 1897 framed solar print The lithograph holds him inEmlenton, Venango County, Pennsylvania 1897 surveys an oil country borough perched on the Allegheny, drawn at the moment when derricks and refineries had reshaped the western Pennsylvania hills into ledgers of crude and capital. A bird's eye lithograph in the civic idiom of the late Gilded Age every church spire and rail siding accounted for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of