Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 poster Fort Worth Asa Smith Bushnell 1895 —

Asa Smith Bushnell 1895 — the Ohio governor-elect rendered in the sober formality of late-century political portraiture

Burning of the Ocean Monarch in the English Channel 1848 - Vintage Maritime Print — a lithograph that renders catastrophe with terrible elegance

19th Century — a documentary engraving of the Boer War's bitter river crossings

America 1671 — a cartographic glance backward to a continent still half-rumor

Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 poster Fort Worth Asa Smith Bushnell 1895 —Ex Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 a photograph of the gray veterans nineteen years after Appomattox, gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory. The image carries the particular stillness of men who outlived the war they fought. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,