General John E. Wool at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Celestial Mechanics of Wandering

The Celestial Mechanics of Wandering Worlds charts the planets in their solemn errantry — those bright vagabonds the Greeks called planētes

its first-order Fresnel apparatus and keeper's quarters platted with the patience of men who knew this stretch of Pacific had already swallowed the names carved into its charts

311466 captures the working geometry of the Victorian barber's trade — the angles

a denominational census rendered in the grave decorum of post-war American religion

General John E. Wool at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Celestial Mechanics of WanderingGeneral John E. Wool at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847 a campaign lithograph rendered in the swaggering grammar of Manifest Destiny, fixing Wool astride his line on the chaparral plateau where Santa Anna's columns broke and the young republic discovered the taste of imperial victory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical