Train Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and his march back to

and his march back to Virginia under federal bayonets

the republic still young enough to believe its presidents could be gathered like a family

A thoughtful gift for whiskey collectors

fire escapes

Washington DC arrives in lithographed marble and linen sky — the Capitol dome

Train Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and his march back toTrain Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century a documentary photograph of the iron age caught in one of its routine catastrophes, the locomotive stopped mid route while bystanders gather at a respectful distance to watch the smoke rise. The crowd's stillness suggests the spectacle was, by then, almost familiar. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National