Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Size:24x18 The image carries the quiet

The image carries the quiet of a domestic threshold that history would soon refuse to leave alone

Douglas Stanton Hospitals Washington DC 1864 — a documentary view of the wartime capital's converted wards

narrating the Ohio canal boy's ascent to the White House in panels arranged like stations of a civic passion play

1860 — a campaign portrait of the Little Giant in the year his party split beneath him

Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Size:24x18 The image carries the quietCapitol of Michigan, Lansing 19th Century. A documentary engraving of the statehouse rising from the cleared pine country of central Michigan, its dome and pediments rendered with the civic seriousness of a young capital announcing that frontier timber towns could, in time, govern themselves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical