Chicago 1871 framed bureaucrat when Foote's ironclad flotilla churned

when Foote's ironclad flotilla churned up the Tennessee River and shelled the half-drowned Confederate works into submission before Grant's infantry ever arrived

It is less a map than an ephemeris of longing

The draftsman's lines trace not just a structure but a descent

Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848

a portrait of the New York Central's chief orator at the height of his Gilded Age influence

Chicago 1871 framed bureaucrat when Foote's ironclad flotilla churnedChicago 1871 a document of the year the city burned, when the lake wind carried embers across wooden boulevards and three hundred souls were lost to a fire that began, so legend insisted, in a barn on DeKoven Street. The image belongs to the smoldering ledger of an American metropolis learning to rebuild in brick and iron. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National