Spirit of the Union 1861 Size:18x24 splintered timber

splintered timber

The Engelberg Candlestick Telephone Patent — Whispers Through Wire is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

or a man's bathroom built around a straight razor and a leather strop

Puget Sound ferries trailing wakes past timbered shorelines

complicated work of rebuilding after the war

Spirit of the Union 1861 Size:18x24 splintered timberSpirit of the Union 1861. A chromolithograph rallying the Northern imagination at the very moment of rupture, when allegiance to the federal compact had to be drawn, printed, and pinned to parlor walls. The iconography is unembarrassed eagle, flag, and the abstract noun made visual published in the year secession forced every household to choose a side. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the