Com. Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi, April 24th 1862 Frame Style:Ebony Frame 1879 arranges Joseph Smith and

1879 arranges Joseph Smith and his successors in a devotional lithograph

The Alligator Reef Sentinel Screw Pile Lighthouse Blueprint reads like a draftsman's quiet argument with the Florida Keys themselves — wrought-iron legs threaded into living coral

his face hardened into the iconography of a republic still reckoning with what total war had cost it

The Colossus and the Silver Leviathan: Liberty's Vigil at the Golden Door stages an improbable rendezvous in the harbor — Bartholdi's torchbearer holding her ground as a dirigible drifts past her crown

The Croce Atomizer Patent — a Study in Vapor and Vanity is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

Com. Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi, April 24th 1862 Frame Style:Ebony Frame 1879 arranges Joseph Smith andCom. Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi, April 24th 1862 a documentary engraving of the night the Union Navy ran the gauntlet beneath Forts Jackson and St. Philip, mortar flash and powder smoke rendered in the hard line work of a press eager to deliver New Orleans to the Northern reader. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional