Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Aloha Stadium gift We print it at archival

We print it at archival quality so the detail holds — every signature legible

and the White City of the Columbian Exposition stacked like geological strata in the proud civic hand of a Gilded Age commemorative lithograph

the engraver's hand hurrying to keep pace with a war already writing itself into legend

Sept 17 1862

19th Century

Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Aloha Stadium gift We print it at archivalEncampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 a documentary engraving of canvas rows and dress parade twenty years after Appomattox, when the citizen soldier had become ceremonial again, the muster a civic ritual of remembrance rather than a summons to anything bloodier than drill. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical