Historical Pictorial Record of the M.E. Church 1894 Size:36x24 her shawl and Union flag

her shawl and Union flag rendered three decades after Appomattox in the soft gravity of a commemorative lithograph — the Civil War already passing into legend

1901 — a commemorative grouping of the three martyred presidents

its cantilevered ironwork drawn with the gravity of an engineer who knew he was stitching Manhattan to Queens

The imagery speaks in the visual grammar of the lodge: regalia

Armory of First City Troop

Historical Pictorial Record of the M.E. Church 1894 Size:36x24 her shawl and Union flagHistorical Pictorial Record of the M. E. Church 1894 gathers the Methodist Episcopal denomination at the close of a difficult century sanctuaries, circuit riders, and bishops arrayed in the careful documentary engraving of a faith insisting on its own ledger of memory. 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