Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Size:24x18 cataloged in linen and real-photo

cataloged in linen and real-photo postcards from the early devotional era

issued the same season Blaine chased the presidency and lost it by a whisper — the engraving carries all the burnished gravity a Gilded Age publisher could muster for a man already half-mythologized

the conqueror of the Spanish fleet rendered

drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base

The image carries the quiet of a domestic threshold that history would soon refuse to leave alone

Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Size:24x18 cataloged in linen and real-photoCapitol of Michigan, Lansing 19th Century. A documentary engraving of the statehouse rising from the cleared pine country of central Michigan, its dome and pediments rendered with the civic seriousness of a young capital announcing that frontier timber towns could, in time, govern themselves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical