Amen Bey, the First Turkish Envoy From the Sultan of Constantinople to the United States, 1851 antique map Pacific The likeness belongs less to

The likeness belongs less to the man than to the memory: Jefferson rendered as civic scripture

A collection plate for the cataract that made tourism American

and any space that remembers the republic's first turn at world war

Rhode Island arrives in salt-bleached blues and Narragansett greys — Newport's gilded cottages

kept Britain at bay

Amen Bey, the First Turkish Envoy From the Sultan of Constantinople to the United States, 1851 antique map Pacific The likeness belongs less toAmen Bey, the First Turkish Envoy From the Sultan of Constantinople to the United States, 1851. A documentary engraving of the Sublime Porte's first emissary to Washington, rendered at a moment when the young republic was still learning to receive the world's old courts Ottoman robes inked with the careful curiosity of a nation testing its diplomatic reach. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the