Castle Thunder Richmond VA 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Illustrations of the Mass 1874

Illustrations of the Mass 1874 — a devotional engraving suite from the Gilded Age's quieter pews

its dome and pediments rendered with the civic seriousness of a young capital announcing that frontier timber towns could

but the politics behind it were pure cider-barrel theater

had been worn into a kind of national topography by grief

Castle Thunder Richmond VA 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Illustrations of the Mass 1874Castle Thunder Richmond VA 19th Century the converted tobacco warehouse on Cary Street where the Confederacy held its political prisoners, deserters, and accused spies. The image carries the grim civic weight of a building that became a byword for wartime detention in the rebel capital. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,