Belle Isle Opposite Richmond Va 1866 framed cartographer the presidential box rendered in

the presidential box rendered in the same careful line as the playbill

and real-photo postcards of sod-house homesteads holding their ground against a horizon that refuses to end

Lincoln and Garfield

Pictorial War Records 1899 arrives with the swagger of a young empire compiling its own legend — Cuba and Manila bound together in halftone

Belle Isle Opposite Richmond Va 1866 framed cartographer the presidential box rendered inBelle Isle Opposite Richmond Va 1866 a documentary view of the James River island whose name still carried the weight of its prison stockades, photographed the year after Appomattox when the Confederate capital across the water lay in ruins and the work of remembrance had only just begun. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical