The Old Post Office New York 1877 vintage tobacco art an 1894 engraving issued nearly

an 1894 engraving issued nearly three decades past Ford's Theatre

drawn with the trembling reverence of a man watching the sun exhale

arranging pontiffs and presidents into a single devotional grid for the immigrant parlors of a republic still negotiating its post-war soul

and the republic reaching

The Old Post Office New York 1877 vintage tobacco art an 1894 engraving issued nearlyThe Old Post Office, New York, 1877. A view of the great granite pile at City Hall Park in its first year of operation Mullett's Second Empire colossus rising over Park Row, mansard roofs and arched windows announcing that the federal government had arrived in the metropolis to stay. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,