Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 Size:24x18 Navy's survey for an isthmian

Navy's survey for an isthmian canal route through the Panamanian jungle

librations

ceremonial swords

his gaunt features rendered in the grave register reserved for men carrying a fracturing republic

smoke rising from Spanish hulls in the harbor where an old empire surrendered the Pacific before breakfast

Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 Size:24x18 Navy's survey for an isthmianBirds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 surveys the Quaker City a year before the Centennial, 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. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National