Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 vintage american elevated from the Senate chamber

elevated from the Senate chamber the year Polk's war closed and the slavery question began its slow scald through Pennsylvania's anthracite politics

National Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States

Thomas Hart Benton Senator From Missouri 1837

It is the firmament rendered as both cathedral and calculation

Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 vintage american elevated from the Senate chamberBird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 a documentary engraving of the Potomac quay at the height of the war, rendered when the wharf was less a port than an artery, pumping troops and quartermaster's freight into a capital bracing itself against the Confederacy across the river. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional