Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 grit_definition Rear Admiral Sampson USN 1899

Rear Admiral Sampson USN 1899 — a portrait of the Navy man who commanded the North Atlantic Squadron at Santiago

The Celestial Orrery Victorian Solar System Observatory Print is the heavens reduced to brass and reverence — concentric orbits wheeling around a small

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre

1865 — a heraldic ledger of the Union's fighting bodies

A Lost Cause commemorative printed nearly three decades after Appomattox

Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 grit_definition Rear Admiral Sampson USN 1899Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 surveys the Quaker City a year before the Centennial, its grid of row houses and church spires drawn from an imagined altitude where the Delaware bends and Fairmount sprawls a lithographer's claim that the republic's first capital had grown into something worth measuring from above. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National