Constitution of the United States and a Plan of the Capitol at Washington Frame Style:Ebony Frame GW Gail Axe Navy Plug

GW Gail Axe Navy Plug 1886 — a tobacco label from the heyday of the Baltimore plug trade

onto Pacific water

issued in the long shadow after the war

rendered at a moment when the young republic was still learning to receive the world's old courts — Ottoman robes inked with the careful curiosity of a nation testing its diplomatic reach

dirigibles tethered to needle-spires

Constitution of the United States and a Plan of the Capitol at Washington Frame Style:Ebony Frame GW Gail Axe Navy PlugConstitution of the United States and a Plan of the Capitol at Washington pairs the founding charter with the architectural ambition meant to house it articles of governance set beside the floor plan of the chamber where they would be argued, a republic drawn in ink and laid out in stone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical