Various Flags Carried by the Confederate Armies Soldier_Field_Print The lithographer's careful shading lingers

The lithographer's careful shading lingers on those famously hollowed eyes

before the long war made his face the most photographed in the republic

The Barbers Instrument Patent Tools of Precise Vanity comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

The scene belongs to that Rockefeller-era Manhattan where neon was still an event and an evening out demanded a hat

Various Flags Carried by the Confederate Armies Soldier_Field_Print The lithographer's careful shading lingersVarious Flags Carried by the Confederate Armies catalogs the shifting heraldry of secession Stars and Bars, battle flags, regimental colors arranged with the cool taxonomy of a plate that knew these banners had already passed from rallying cry into relic. 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 lithographic publishers