Chicago in Flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge, 1872 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its first-order Fresnel apparatus and

its first-order Fresnel apparatus and keeper's quarters platted with the patience of men who knew this stretch of Pacific had already swallowed the names carved into its charts

The image arrived in American parlors as elegy and alibi at once

charming a court whose alliance would decide the war

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

Chicago in Flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge, 1872 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its first-order Fresnel apparatus andChicago in Flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge, 1872 a documentary engraving of the city's harrowing exodus, drawn in the long shadow of the Great Fire as crowds, carts, and panicked horses press across the river while the skyline behind them glows with its own undoing. 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