Hall twin of site.ssm_halls the-machine-and-the-ward - the claim on the wall is the hall claim, verbatim.
The Round City of Baghdad - administration drawn as a perfect circle. The ward machine is as old as the wall. (Estate ancient-cities collection, cities/views/historical.php.)
The Ward Map
The city hall machine drawn as a web: wards, bosses, favors, and votes, strung in lit thread across the wall map.
The Ward Boss's Parlor
A bucket of coal, a job on the docks, a word at the courthouse - retail government, one favor at a time.
Election Day
Repeaters, poll watchers, and the saloon two doors down - democracy as the machine practiced it.
The Reform Desk
Charters, civil service lists, and the municipal research bureau - the counter-machine of clean government.
The Reading Wall
The hall's informational panels in sequence - the argument of the gallery told in maps, figures, and captions. Read it like a chapter.
Viewpoints
Governance drill viewpoints - government good and bad across sixty cities.
Crowd at Gaynor notification 9/3/13 (1913-01-01) - Bain News Service, Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/item/2014694098/