General John Alexander Logan Family 1887 Size:36x24 the moment a republic began

the moment a republic began

fresh from negotiating the Webster-Ashburton Treaty

42nd Street — the great cross-axis of Manhattan rendered in all its theatrical density

The Celestial Shadow Mechanics Victorian Eclipse Diagram charts the geometry of occultation with the gravitas of a theological proof — umbra and penumbra traced in the patient hand of an astronomer who believed the moon's transit across the sun was less an event than a sentence spoken in the old grammar of the firmament

General John Alexander Logan Family 1887 Size:36x24 the moment a republic beganGeneral John Alexander Logan Family 1887 a domestic portrait of the Union general and Illinois senator gathered with his kin the year after his death, the fierce architect of Memorial Day softened here into patriarch, the household composed in that particular Gilded Age stillness reserved for men whose public lives had just become memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,