Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print rendered with the formal restraint

rendered with the formal restraint owed a man who had served as Navy Secretary before returning to the chamber's marble acoustics of nullification

or any room built around the idea that small things deserve careful attention

Raphael Semmes of the Confederate Raider Alabama

Jupiter's Captives the Celestial Prison of Wandering Comets — a Victorian astronomical lithograph in which the gas giant becomes a gravitational gaoler

and the artifacts of American local memory

Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print rendered with the formal restraintArmy and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 a documentary engraving of the granite shaft rising on Boston Common just seven years after Appomattox, when the city's masons were still translating grief into civic stone and the dead into allegorical figures. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers