Belle Isle Opposite Richmond Va 1866 framed cartographer Pictorial War Records 1899 arrives

Pictorial War Records 1899 arrives with the swagger of a young empire compiling its own legend — Cuba and Manila bound together in halftone

Lincoln and Garfield

The parlor here is a balm

These are the postcards of Santa Fe Railway depots

Belle Isle Opposite Richmond Va 1866 framed cartographer Pictorial War Records 1899 arrivesBelle Isle Opposite Richmond Va 1866 a documentary view of the James River island whose name still carried the weight of its prison stockades, photographed the year after Appomattox when the Confederate capital across the water lay in ruins and the work of remembrance had only just begun. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical