The show pulls from Hine's entire career, major arcs of which include portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island, visual scrutiny of labor conditions during the Industrial Revolution and searing shots of war-torn Europe.
She engaged targets in Occupied Flanders for the last several months of the war and fired the last shots of the war against such targets on 15 October 1918.
At the close of the war in April 1865, Beecher was invited to speak at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, where the first shots of the war had been fired; Lincoln had again personally selected him, stating, "We had better send Beecher down to deliver the address on the occasion of raising the flag because if it had not been for Beecher there would have been no flag to raise".
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on 28 July 1914, and that night Bodrog and two other monitors fired the first shots of the war against fortifications at the Zemun Belgrade railway bridge over the Sava and on the Topčider Hill.
The Austro-Hungarian river vessel which fired the first shots of the war was a 56 metre long gunboat with a 79 strong crew called the Bodrog.
Outside Richmond, one of the last cannon shots of the war almost takes off Pelham's ear and leaves him unconscious.
About a thousand Confederate and Union re-enactors traveled from across the nation and from as far as Australia and Germany for the week of events, in the planning for years, marking the 150th anniversary of the first shots of the war.
There's even what looks like an Occupy Sarajevo camp, a handful of tents pitched outside the parliament building where the first shots of the war were fired 20 years ago.
The first actual shots of the war were fired just after 1am on 29 July when Austro-Hungarian naval vessels on the river Sava opened fire on the Serbian sappers who had blown up the bridge and on Belgrade itself.
Vincent Johnson, 45, the show's senior artist, is also one of its small handful of photographers: his grainy views of his native Cleveland look like surreptitious shots of a war zone.
