John Hill’s 1855 view of Portland, Maine from Cape Elizabeth—perhaps the best known topographic view of the port city—showing in wonderful detail the flourishing conditions there before the Civil War and the Great Fire of 1866. The captivating quality of this view is achieved through its broad foreground area.....
A splendid large-folio view of San Francisco as seen from an imaginary elevated vantage point over San Francisco Bay, showing the city as it appeared after three decades of extraordinary growth beginning with the Gold Rush in 1849. By the 1870s San Francisco was not only the most important city.....
![Item #8264 George H. Parsons, Yorktown, VA, 148 N[ew] York Co. F. [Civil War diary of an officer...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8264_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701806162)
An eventful diary documenting an officer’s eleven months of service in Virginia with the 148th New York Infantry Regiment, kept in part during General Grant’s Petersburg Campaign and ending after Parsons is wounded during the Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (27–28 October 1864) and returns home to recuperate. .....