Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 framed lunar art in miniature

in miniature

an engraving where the terminator becomes theology — that trembling line where lunar day surrenders to lunar night

Sky Scrapers of Philadelphia 1898

North Dakota Fargo rises from the Red River Valley flatlands as the prairie's unlikely metropolis — a grain-belt crossroads where linen postcards traded views of Broadway's bustle

Greeting cards and linen plates from the Mile High City

Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 framed lunar art in miniatureDeath of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 memorializes the fall of Samuel Ringgold at Palo Alto, where the mobile cannon he had drilled into doctrine outlived him by an afternoon. The lithograph carries the elegiac swagger of Mexican War mourning Manifest Destiny pausing, briefly, to bury its first martyr. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,