New York Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Erected on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor 1885 Size:18x24 Martha Washington 1893 — a

Martha Washington 1893 — a late-century commemorative likeness of the first First Lady

Providence's mill-stack skyline

The General's Eternal Vigil: Riverside Mausoleum Nocturne renders Grant's Tomb in moonlit hush above the Hudson

the firmament's most theatrical body caught mid-performance

New York Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Erected on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor 1885 Size:18x24 Martha Washington 1893 — aNew York Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Erected on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor 1885 a documentary engraving of the copper colossus rising in pieces above the harbor, Bartholdi's gift assembled stone by stone in the long civic afterglow of a country still learning how to commemorate itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical