Capitol at Washington 19th Century Size:24x18 the Music Hall's vertical blade

the Music Hall's vertical blade and ribboned marquee burning above a sidewalk thick with overcoats and upturned faces

rendered here in the dignified register of postwar portraiture

its octagonal superstructure and lantern-room geometry drawn by engineers who knew the harbor would test every rivet they specified

the Casino arcade

his three stars freshly minted by an Act of Congress that hadn't been invoked since Washington

Capitol at Washington 19th Century Size:24x18 the Music Hall's vertical bladeCapitol at Washington 19th Century an engraving of the dome rising above the Mall, rendered in the decades after Walter's cast iron crown finally closed over the rotunda. The building reads less as architecture here than as argument: a republic insisting, in marble and shadow, that it had survived itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional