Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 vintage_city_map The Presidents of the United

The Presidents of the United States: Washington 1789 to Fillmore 1850 — a gallery lithograph assembling the republic's first thirteen executives

The lithograph carries the elegiac swagger of Mexican War mourning — Manifest Destiny pausing

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liberty recast in the iconography of foundries and freight — a chromolithograph that mistakes prosperity for proof

Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 vintage_city_map The Presidents of the UnitedDesign of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 a draftsman's proposal rendered in the civic vocabulary of the post war republic, when bronze and allegory were called upon to do the work of healing. The centennial loomed, and the country answered in pedestals. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and