City of New York 1856 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame drawn by hands that sensed

drawn by hands that sensed the Union fraying and looked to Valley Forge for proof that suffering could still be ennobled into nationhood

smoke unfurling against a sky already going to ruin

mourning the Whig general whose thirty-one days in office turned an inaugural into an elegy and handed the Tyler presidency a country still arguing over what Harrison was supposed to mean

necessary victory as 1862 bled into 1863

the bowl of the Hollywood sign rising from chaparral hills

City of New York 1856 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame drawn by hands that sensedCity of New York 1856. A mid century prospect of Manhattan rendered just before the storm the harbor crowded with packet ships and the gridded streets advancing northward, charted with the swaggering certainty of a metropolis convinced its commerce could outrun the country's unraveling. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,