Commander Selfridge on His Return Reconnaissance Into the Interior of Darien Frame Style:Verdigris Frame its allegorical title insisting on

its allegorical title insisting on a principle that Reconstruction was already conceding in practice

when Washington's image was reissued as civic anchor and shared inheritance

the muster a civic ritual of remembrance rather than a summons to anything bloodier than drill

his bearded steadiness rendered in the engraver's deliberate cross-hatching

Booth mid-leap toward a stage that would never close

Commander Selfridge on His Return Reconnaissance Into the Interior of Darien Frame Style:Verdigris Frame its allegorical title insisting onCommander Selfridge on His Return Reconnaissance Into the Interior of Darien documents the U. S. Navy's survey for an isthmian canal route through the Panamanian jungle, an engraving in which Selfridge's bedraggled column emerges from the green interior with the haunted air of men who measured a continent and found it unwilling. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the