38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 era-antebellum 000 miles distant lifts the

000 miles distant lifts the oceans like a slow

Arizona Grand Canyon arrives in linen and lithograph — sunset-stained chasms

A commemorative engraving marking the Republic's hundredth year

the locomotive buried to its headlamp in drifts that mock the Gilded Age's faith in steel and timetable

the kind of formal likeness commissioned when a man wished his name and bearing entered into the civic record

38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 era-antebellum 000 miles distant lifts the38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 a militia document from the long peace before the storm, when state artillery companies drilled in handsome uniforms and borrowed the names of dead presidents, certain that the Republic's next war would be fought somewhere far from home. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical