Broadway, New York: From the Western Union Telegraph Building Looking North Eureka_wall_art a decade after Appomattox

a decade after Appomattox

The Temple of Fortune: Wall Street's Gilded Altar renders the Stock Exchange as a Greco-Roman shrine to capital — pediment

Chauncey Mitchell Depew 1888 — the railroad attorney turned silver-tongued statesman caught in the year he made his quixotic bid for the Republican nomination

A likeness from the final year — the face that had absorbed four winters of war

Broadway, New York: From the Western Union Telegraph Building Looking North Eureka_wall_art a decade after AppomattoxBroadway, New York: From the Western Union Telegraph Building Looking North looks down the avenue from the nerve center of American communication itself a photograph in which carriages, awnings, and cast iron facades stretch toward the horizon under the quiet authority of the wires overhead. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical