Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Story's Monument of Liberty to

Story's Monument of Liberty to Be Erected in Independence Square Philadelphia 1875 — a centennial-eve lithograph rendering the sculptor's allegorical tower in Philadelphia's most hallowed yard

Every gilded balustrade and velvet-draped tier reads as a sermon to the silent-screen era — devotion rendered in plasterwork

two years before the guns of August would force it to grow up

prophecy mistaken for madness

Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Story's Monument of Liberty toMrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century a portrait of Adele Cutts Douglas, the Washington belle who married the Little Giant at the height of his quarrels with Lincoln, rendered with the soft formality reserved for senatorial wives whose drawing rooms doubled as the antechambers of antebellum power. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical