City of New York From Jersey City 1849 Toilet_Canvas_Art 19th Century — a portrait

19th Century — a portrait of the Union admiral whose name lived twice over: once on the bottle-shaped guns that armed the federal navy

in a barn on DeKoven Street

ceremonial swords

where Burnside fed wave after wave of Union infantry into a stone wall and a sunken road

or the kind of library that still smells faintly of pipe smoke

City of New York From Jersey City 1849 Toilet_Canvas_Art 19th Century — a portraitCity of New York From Jersey City 1849. A panoramic lithograph drawn across the Hudson's working water, masts and steeples crowding the skyline of a port city already swelling toward empire the harbor still antebellum, still innocent of the rupture a dozen years out. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the