Carver Barracks, Washington DC, 1864 University_Virginia his shoulder straps speaking the

his shoulder straps speaking the language of a republic that promoted its politicians into uniform

Family Chart for the United States 1835 diagrams the young republic as a household ledger — Jackson's America rendered as lineage

The Porcineograph 1876 — William Emerson Baker's centennial absurdity

California San Francisco arrives in fog and cable-car bells — a postcard city of Nob Hill terraces

Carver Barracks, Washington DC, 1864 University_Virginia his shoulder straps speaking theCarver Barracks, Washington DC, 1864 a wartime view of the convalescent hospital wards that ringed the capital, where Union soldiers mended within sight of the unfinished Capitol dome. The image carries the quiet ledger keeping of a city turned garrison, its tents and barracks pitched against the long arithmetic of casualty lists. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the