Train Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap his wife Julia and their

his wife Julia and their children arranged in the careful symmetry of a household being introduced to the republic it would soon occupy

fire escapes

in the end

the republic still young enough to believe its presidents could be gathered like a family

Train Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap his wife Julia and theirTrain Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching, 19th Century a documentary photograph of the iron age caught in one of its routine catastrophes, the locomotive stopped mid route while bystanders gather at a respectful distance to watch the smoke rise. The crowd's stillness suggests the spectacle was, by then, almost familiar. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National