Camp Patterson Park, Baltimore, Md. — 11th Regt. New York Volunteers, Col. D.C. Little bay area art rendered with the ceremonial gravity

rendered with the ceremonial gravity the Gilded Age reserved for its rituals — a republic still binding its post-war wounds

000-year-old obelisk in its improbable Central Park exile

The scene hums with the swaggering mercantile din of a city teaching the century how to hurry

The scene reads like a society column rendered in silver gelatin

Camp Patterson Park, Baltimore, Md. — 11th Regt. New York Volunteers, Col. D.C. Little bay area art rendered with the ceremonial gravityCamp Patterson Park, Baltimore, Md. 11th Regt. New York Volunteers, Col. D. C. Little a Union encampment rendered with the documentary calm of a regiment between marches, Patterson Park's tents pitched on Baltimore soil where loyalty itself was a contested matter and a New York colonel's name held the line in ink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,