Burning of the New York Crystal Palace, Tuesday Oct 5th 1858 Size:36x24 Alaska arrives by mailboat and

Alaska arrives by mailboat and dogsled — glacier-blue tidewater

Washington First in War First in Peace and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen 19th Century — a 19th-century commemorative engraving rendering Henry Lee's famous eulogy into pictorial scripture

the engraver's hand hurrying to keep pace with a war already writing itself into legend

scorched surrender to the Union advance

Burning of the New York Crystal Palace, Tuesday Oct 5th 1858 Size:36x24 Alaska arrives by mailboat andBurning of the New York Crystal Palace, Tuesday Oct 5th 1858 a documentary engraving of the iron and glass marvel of Bryant Park reduced to cinders in fifteen minutes, its vaunted fireproof skeleton folding like foil while the confidence of the age, briefly, watched itself burn. 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