Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney vintage alaska map Monument Circle in the making

Monument Circle in the making

Lumen Field Original Painting from Bella Frye

its new steel-frame towers crowding the skyline above Broad and Market with the unembarrassed vertical ambition of American capital learning what height could mean

epaulets and sash arranged with the theatrical confidence of an officer whose march on Chapultepec was already being engraved into the republic's expansionist mythology

Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney vintage alaska map Monument Circle in the makingDiagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney a draftsman lawyer's attempt to render the Republic legible, its branches and powers diagrammed like the schematic of a machine that had just survived being torn apart and was now being explained back to itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical