Carver Barracks, Washington DC, 1864 University_Virginia when the West was still

when the West was still wide enough to run and nearly done being wild

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

where every dressed stone had to be hoisted through Pacific swell

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

Carver Barracks, Washington DC, 1864 University_Virginia when the West was stillCarver 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