Amen Bey, the First Turkish Envoy From the Sultan of Constantinople to the United States, 1851 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the broad prairie main

and the broad prairie main street where ranch country met railroad town under an open Dakota sky

and the patchwork farmland where Norwegian and German settlers raised their courthouses and creameries

Washington DC arrives in lithographed marble and linen sky — the Capitol dome

Cliff House surf

1850 renders catastrophe with the cold-eyed reportage of the penny press — a documentary engraving of smoke

Amen Bey, the First Turkish Envoy From the Sultan of Constantinople to the United States, 1851 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the broad prairie mainAmen Bey, the First Turkish Envoy From the Sultan of Constantinople to the United States, 1851. A documentary engraving of the Sublime Porte's first emissary to Washington, rendered at a moment when the young republic was still learning to receive the world's old courts Ottoman robes inked with the careful curiosity of a nation testing its diplomatic reach. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the