Chicago 1871 historic canvas 1866 — a presidential portrait

1866 — a presidential portrait of the Tennessee tailor who inherited Lincoln's chair and the wreckage of the Union

The Brockett Seal Blueprint for the American Cold One belongs to the great age of American brewing

and any space that marks the moment America stepped onto the world stage as an empire of its own

each planetary orbit traced in concentric gold as though the firmament itself were a pocket-watch laid open

Chicago 1871 historic canvas 1866 — a presidential portraitChicago 1871 a document of the year the city burned, when the lake wind carried embers across wooden boulevards and three hundred souls were lost to a fire that began, so legend insisted, in a barn on DeKoven Street. The image belongs to the smoldering ledger of an American metropolis learning to rebuild in brick and iron. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National