Major Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 framed blueprint Illinois Chicago arrives with the

Illinois Chicago arrives with the clamor of the stockyards and the hush of the lakefront in the same breath — elevated trains over Wabash

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

rendered in the third year of the war when its sabers and stalls had become both heirloom and instrument

the gaze of a man reading casualty lists by lamplight

The Coopers Secret Patent Blueprint of the Forgotten Barrel Shield comes from an era when the distiller was half-engineer

Major Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 framed blueprint Illinois Chicago arrives with theMajor Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 the officer who held Charleston Harbor through thirty four hours of bombardment, rendered here in the early ink of a war just beginning. His likeness was printed for a Union public hungry for a face to fix the opening shot upon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and