Brigadier General Louis Blenker, First Regiment German Rifles, 19th Century large Panama map 000-year-old obelisk in its improbable

000-year-old obelisk in its improbable Central Park exile

Every gilded balustrade and velvet-draped tier reads as a sermon to the silent-screen era — devotion rendered in plasterwork

the great thoroughfare caught mid-swagger in its top-hat era

A pantheon arranged with Whiggish reverence

The Croce Atomizer Patent — a Study in Vapor and Vanity is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

Brigadier General Louis Blenker, First Regiment German Rifles, 19th Century large Panama map 000-year-old obelisk in its improbableBrigadier General Louis Blenker, First Regiment German Rifles, 19th Century. Blenker came to the Union cause already an exile of failed European revolutions, and the portrait carries that double weight a forty eighter in a federal uniform, leading German speaking volunteers into a war fought in a borrowed tongue. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,