became the country's mirror during its self-inflicted wound
The Danziger Cigarette Patent of 1865 is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe
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issued in the brittle year before Havana harbor turned the republic into an empire
Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 Size:36x24 became the country's mirror duringCamp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 a documentary view of the Union's vast prison stockade on the lakefront, where Confederate captives wintered behind plank walls and rumor of conspiracy. The image carries the cold ledger weight of 1864: barracks in rows, sentries at their posts, a war counted in men confined. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional