Battle of New Berne NC 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Sages and Statesmen of the

Sages and Statesmen of the 19th Century — a composite engraving in the parlor tradition

its grid of row houses and church spires drawn from an imagined altitude where the Delaware bends and Fairmount sprawls — a lithographer's claim that the republic's first capital had grown into something worth measuring from above

The Blackwood Pipe Patent a Gentlemans Vice Blueprint reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause

The lithograph carries all the senatorial bearing of a man who had argued the territories from the floor and lost the argument anyway

Battle of New Berne NC 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Sages and Statesmen of theBattle of New Berne NC 1885 a commemorative rendering issued two decades after the guns fell silent, returning to Burnside's 1862 coastal campaign with the careful retrospection of a generation now building monuments to what it once survived. The North Carolina shoreline appears here as memory rather than maneuver. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,