John Mitchell the Miners Champion 1903 prints of NOLA 23896 Cross Bow by C

23896 Cross Bow by C Sanftleben H Russel Patented August 1 1859 — Sanftleben and Russel's inventor's diagram catches the crossbow at a curious American moment

an immigrant Babel pressed into the bones of Lower Manhattan

the victor of Appomattox photographed as a private man stepping into civic life

when Halleck's cautious advance toward Corinth turned the Mississippi backcountry into a slow ledger of skirmish and entrenchment

The Lunar Ruin — Victorian Selenography Print a selenographer's plate of the Moon's pocked grey country

John Mitchell the Miners Champion 1903 prints of NOLA 23896 Cross Bow by CJohn Mitchell the Miners Champion 1903 a tribute portrait to the United Mine Workers president who faced down the anthracite coal operators, rendered in the sober reverence reserved for labor's saints in an age when industrial confidence still believed it could be answered. 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