His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 Toilet_Canvas_Art California San Francisco arrives in

California San Francisco arrives in fog and cable-car bells — a postcard city of Nob Hill terraces

looping through their epicycles like clockwork pilgrims

photographed in the careful civic hush of a city learning how to mourn its dead in stone

the kind of commemorative print Victorian-American parlors hung beside Longfellow

His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 Toilet_Canvas_Art California San Francisco arrives inHis Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875. A commemorative portrait marking the elevation of the first American cardinal Rome's red hat settled upon a Manhattan see, the immigrant Church stepping into the civic light of a republic still stitching itself back together. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical