Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse all sash and slogan and

all sash and slogan and stiff-collared resolve

a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic

San Juan Hill still ahead of him

Burning of the Library of Congress 1892 — a press engraving of the night flame found the nation's bookshelves

Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse all sash and slogan andDesign of the National Washington Monument 1846 an architect's vision for the obelisk on the Potomac, drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base, before subscription drives faltered and the Civil War left the shaft half built in the mud. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National