Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Size:24x18 Douglas Stanton Hospitals Washington DC

Douglas Stanton Hospitals Washington DC 1864 — a documentary view of the wartime capital's converted wards

cataloged in linen and real-photo postcards from the early devotional era

The scene burns with the terrible clarity of a war the lithographers knew would close one empire and christen another

1860 — a campaign portrait of the Little Giant in the year his party split beneath him

drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base

Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Size:24x18 Douglas Stanton Hospitals Washington DCCapitol of Michigan, Lansing 19th Century. A documentary engraving of the statehouse rising from the cleared pine country of central Michigan, its dome and pediments rendered with the civic seriousness of a young capital announcing that frontier timber towns could, in time, govern themselves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical