Coats of Arms of the Thirteen Original States, 19th Century Boston map and the seven-mile stretch of

and the seven-mile stretch of sand that drew Montrealers down by overnight train

the Charles Town morning rendered with the gravity of an abolitionist icon already passing into legend

The Ghetto — a Lower East Side tableau thick with pushcarts

or those who live for the skies

Coats of Arms of the Thirteen Original States, 19th Century Boston map and the seven-mile stretch ofCoats of Arms of the Thirteen Original States, 19th Century a heraldic chromolithograph that gathers the founding republics into a single page, each shield a small argument about liberty, lineage, and the borrowed iconography of an old world pressed into the service of a new one. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and