Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire old NOLA print and rooftops drawn with the

and rooftops drawn with the cool civic pride of a city watching another country's war from across the river

The draftsman's lines trace not just a structure but a descent

Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 — an allegorical chromolithograph in which the Republic herself

Utah arrives in saturated lithograph: red rock spires

the banner waves stars and stripes for a Union the candidates could no longer hold together — popular sovereignty stitched onto bunting as the country marched toward Sumter

Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire old NOLA print and rooftops drawn with theDestruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire a documentary view of the April 1906 catastrophe, when a city built on gold rush bravado buckled along the fault line and then surrendered the rest of itself to three days of fire. The image carries the strange hush of a metropolis reduced to grid and ash. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional