Brigadier General Louis Blenker, First Regiment German Rifles, 19th Century large Panama map Every gilded balustrade and velvet-draped

Every gilded balustrade and velvet-draped tier reads as a sermon to the silent-screen era — devotion rendered in plasterwork

the great thoroughfare caught mid-swagger in its top-hat era

A pantheon arranged with Whiggish reverence

The Croce Atomizer Patent — a Study in Vapor and Vanity is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

000-year-old obelisk in its improbable Central Park exile

Brigadier General Louis Blenker, First Regiment German Rifles, 19th Century large Panama map Every gilded balustrade and velvet-drapedBrigadier General Louis Blenker, First Regiment German Rifles, 19th Century. Blenker came to the Union cause already an exile of failed European revolutions, and the portrait carries that double weight a forty eighter in a federal uniform, leading German speaking volunteers into a war fought in a borrowed tongue. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,