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and the postcards know every mile of it — Lookout Mountain panoramas

theater marquees

and Golden Gate views lithographed before the bridge ever spanned them

The Iron Sentinel: Manhattan's Wedge of Progress renders the Flatiron's improbable prow slicing the seam of Broadway and Fifth

Abraham Lincoln 1861 planetary orbits art and the postcards know everyAbraham Lincoln 1861 a portrait from the threshold year, when the rail splitter from Illinois took the oath into a Union already fracturing beneath him. The likeness carries the gaunt composure of a man who understood, perhaps better than anyone, what the next four years would cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and