Explosion of the Maine 1898 oakland_old_map The Bloodletters Beacon Barber Pole

The Bloodletters Beacon Barber Pole Patent Blueprint comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

Bella Frye sources lighthouse drawings from American maritime archives — the U

the parchment's cadence and their gathered portraits arranged as a single act of nerve — ink committed to paper while the outcome of the war was still anyone's guess

and the Belle Isle bridge — postcards mailed from the Motor City when assembly lines were new and the Detroit River carried freighters down from the Lakes in steady

Explosion of the Maine 1898 oakland_old_map The Bloodletters Beacon Barber PoleExplosion of the Maine 1898 the Havana Harbor catastrophe rendered in the urgent linework of the illustrated press, smoke and shattered hull pitched against a night sky that would, within weeks, become a battle cry. Here is the spark itself, the moment empire found its pretext. 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