Burning of the Library of Congress 1892 Photographer_Print rendered in the formal vocabulary

rendered in the formal vocabulary of the antebellum engraver

where a screw-pile station had to outwit hurricanes and the slow

Andrew Johnson

where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry-goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance

catalogued in the last year the Union still needed such a chart

Burning of the Library of Congress 1892 Photographer_Print rendered in the formal vocabularyBurning of the Library of Congress 1892 a press engraving of the night flame found the nation's bookshelves, smoke pouring from the Capitol's old west front while clerks hauled volumes into the cold air, the republic briefly reading itself by firelight. 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