Citizens Volunteer Hospital, Corner of Broad St & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia Size:24x18 bloody footnote in the empire

bloody footnote in the empire America had only just begun to wear

the numerals trailing the name suggesting a plate pulled from some larger compendium of American likenesses — Washington rendered

The Publicans Apparatus Beer Pump Patent Drawing reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

rendered with the grave attention of a man cataloguing a dead city

1776 Centennial International Exhibition 1876 History of the United States — a commemorative print issued for Philadelphia's hundred-year reckoning

Citizens Volunteer Hospital, Corner of Broad St & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia Size:24x18 bloody footnote in the empireCitizens Volunteer Hospital, Corner of Broad St & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia. A documentary lithograph of the Philadelphia refuge where wounded Union soldiers were fed, bandaged, and bedded by the city's own subscription charity and ledger work pressed into service while the war ground on somewhere south of Broad Street. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National