Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Independence Day here is less

Independence Day here is less celebration than reckoning

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rendering the everyday hardness of homestead and trail with the unsentimental eye of a witness who knew the West was a ledger

Smith's concentric rings hold a heavens still innocent of Neptune

Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Independence Day here is lessBird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 a documentary engraving of the Potomac quay at the height of the war, rendered when the wharf was less a port than an artery, pumping troops and quartermaster's freight into a capital bracing itself against the Confederacy across the river. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional