Great Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 Size:24x18 ruled and ornamented for the

ruled and ornamented for the careful entry of names and dates — the parlor-wall arithmetic of grief

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

The lithograph carries all the senatorial bearing of a man who had argued the territories from the floor and lost the argument anyway

a feat of tiered netting and precise radial engineering

and the long Atlantic shoreline were printed in the postcard idiom of summer crowds

Great Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 Size:24x18 ruled and ornamented for theGreat Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 a documentary engraving of the 1849 Astor Place catastrophe, when a feud between Edwin Forrest's partisans and the English tragedian Macready spilled into the street and the militia answered with musketry. Class resentment dressed as a theater quarrel, and the cobblestones remembered. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive