Family Picture for the Million, 1888 framed sleigh and the Buffalo River winding

and the Buffalo River winding past dogwood and limestone

Alabama Mobile arrives draped in Spanish moss and Gulf humidity — a port city where azaleas riot along Government Street and shrimp boats nose into Mobile Bay

The Cathedral of American Pastime Polo Grounds Relic Print conjures the bathtub-shaped bleachers of Coogan's Bluff

The print labors to mark a precise origin for a war whose roots ran far deeper than any single shot

Family Picture for the Million, 1888 framed sleigh and the Buffalo River windingFamily Picture for the Million, 1888 a parlor chromolithograph pitched at the new middle class, its title alone betraying the era's faith that even domestic sentiment could be mass produced and sold by the thousand to households hungry for the trappings of refinement. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the