Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General USA, 1863 Size:24x36 a Vanished Thoroughfare conjures the

a Vanished Thoroughfare conjures the lost elegance of upper Manhattan when brownstone stoops met carriage traffic and the avenue still wore its Sunday best

nothing burns entirely alone

These are buckeye-country greetings — Main Streets paved between cornfield and foundry

The Foye Bottling Apparatus — Patent Blueprint of Industrial Ingenuity reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

when allegiance to the federal compact had to be drawn

Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General USA, 1863 Size:24x36 a Vanished Thoroughfare conjures theQuincy Adams Gillmore, Major General USA, 1863 the engineer soldier rendered in the sober register of wartime portraiture, fresh from reducing Fort Pulaski with rifled artillery and proving that masonry, like the Confederacy itself, could not outlast the new mathematics of siege. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and