Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print Pairs naturally with other documents

Pairs naturally with other documents from the Bella Frye Curious pillar — celestial atlases

a posthumous likeness rendered in the iconography of national mourning — the martyred president recast in printmaker's ink for a country still arguing over what his death was supposed to have settled

and the artifacts of American local memory

where the draftsman's lines trace the cylindrical shell and lantern-room geometry of a sentinel built to weather hurricanes no keeper could outrun

Raphael Semmes of the Confederate Raider Alabama

Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print Pairs naturally with other documentsArmy and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 a documentary engraving of the granite shaft rising on Boston Common just seven years after Appomattox, when the city's masons were still translating grief into civic stone and the dead into allegorical figures. 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 lithographic publishers