Carver Barracks, Washington DC, 1864 University_Virginia The Porcineograph 1876 — William

The Porcineograph 1876 — William Emerson Baker's centennial absurdity

the Reflecting Pool's long mirror

where every dressed stone had to be hoisted through Pacific swell

rendered with the soft formality reserved for senatorial wives whose drawing rooms doubled as the antechambers of antebellum power

A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig ascendancy

Carver Barracks, Washington DC, 1864 University_Virginia The Porcineograph 1876 — WilliamCarver 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