Army and Navy Monument on the Boston Common, Erected 1877 large Boston map totem poles weathered by Pacific

totem poles weathered by Pacific rain

The street unfurls in the gaslit clamor of haberdashers and theater-goers

a face the republic studied while it tried to stitch itself back together

the country still tearing itself toward something

1849 — a Senate portrait of Alexander Mouton at the close of his term

Army and Navy Monument on the Boston Common, Erected 1877 large Boston map totem poles weathered by PacificArmy and Navy Monument on the Boston Common, Erected 1877 a granite shaft raised on the Common a dozen years after Appomattox, photographed in the careful civic hush of a city learning how to mourn its dead in stone, allegory, and bronze relief. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier