James G. Birney 1844 Size:18x24 its prominences and sunspots cataloged

its prominences and sunspots cataloged with the feverish devotion of an age that watched Venus cross the solar disc and called it scripture

Gerard Bukman 1920 — a name and a year set down in the quiet aftermath of the Armistice

Sand Island Light Station Blueprint 8th District Sentinel reads like a draftsman's quiet reckoning with the Gulf — a slender brick tower rising from a shoal off Mobile Bay

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

the country outside it

James G. Birney 1844 Size:18x24 its prominences and sunspots catalogedJames G. Birney 1844 the Liberty Party's standard bearer rendered in the sober campaign portrait register of a third party crusade, his abolitionist candidacy quietly siphoning votes from Henry Clay and tilting the White House toward Polk. A small print, an outsized consequence in the slow burning argument over slavery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National