Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire old NOLA print where the long shadow of

where the long shadow of the war was kept tended by the men who had walked through it

Utah arrives in saturated lithograph: red rock spires

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

Bombardment of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi - Vintage Maritime Print renders that long April siege of 1862 in full chromolithographic thunder — Foote's ironclads and mortar rafts wreathed in cannon smoke as the Confederate stronghold in the river's great horseshoe bend buckles under Union fire

the spires of Trinity and the early towers of Wall Street rising behind like the counting-house cathedrals of a republic still tallying its fortune

Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire old NOLA print where the long shadow ofDestruction 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