Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 grit_definition casting the wartime president as

casting the wartime president as a quiet patriarch with Mary and Tad gathered around the open Bible

1865 — a heraldic ledger of the Union's fighting bodies

A campaign portrait of the Customs House collector turned running mate to Garfield — the side-whiskered machine politician rendered in respectable lithographic gravity

California Hollywood arrives in linen-postcard pastels and lithographed glamour — palm-lined boulevards

A Lost Cause commemorative printed nearly three decades after Appomattox

Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 grit_definition casting the wartime president asBirds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 surveys the Quaker City a year before the Centennial, its grid of row houses and church spires drawn from an imagined altitude where the Delaware bends and Fairmount sprawls a lithographer's claim that the republic's first capital had grown into something worth measuring from above. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National