Grand Parade of the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave, San Francisco, August old Boston map Presidential Inauguration 1881

Presidential Inauguration 1881

their likenesses fixed not long before the Carthage jail made saints of them in the eyes of a young

and the brick canyons of Market Street where penny postcards once moved faster than the trolleys

issued in the long shadow after the war

Grand Parade of the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave, San Francisco, August old Boston map Presidential Inauguration 1881Grand Parade of the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave, San Francisco, August a fraternal chromolithograph of plumed helmets and ceremonial swords marching through the bay city, the Masonic order rendered in the ornate civic confidence of a republic that had learned to dress its rituals in industrial age splendor. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,