Chicago as it Was Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and protocol drawn with the

and protocol drawn with the quiet precision of a republic learning

and Aquila wheeling across the firmament in inked latitudes

Diagram of the Federal Government or the Great Republic of the United States — a civics chart rendered as cathedral architecture

and its chief executive a fugitive bound for Fort Monroe

printed in the brisk civic optimism of a republic still bandaging itself

Chicago as it Was Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and protocol drawn with theChicago as it Was a backward glance at the prairie city before the fire and the steel, rendered in the wistful idiom of a lithograph that knew it was already documenting a place lost to its own ambition. The title alone admits the verdict: Chicago had become something else. 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