The Right Reverend Charles P. McIlvaine, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, 19th Century farmhouse sign half-priest — and the patent

half-priest — and the patent office was where their faith was filed

every doorway holding a story the photographer was lucky to catch

the Empire State and Chrysler reduced to silver totems beneath the formation

telegraph wire

grain elevators standing sentinel over Douglas Avenue

The Right Reverend Charles P. McIlvaine, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, 19th Century farmhouse sign half-priest — and the patentThe Right Reverend Charles P. McIlvaine, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, 19th Century an ecclesiastical portrait of the evangelical bishop who carried Low Church conviction from West Point's chapel to the Ohio frontier. The engraver renders him in the stern collar and steady gaze of a clergyman who counted Lincoln among his correspondents. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American