The Bridge Memorial, St. Louis, MO, Saturday July 4th 1874 minnesota framed map an 1868 lithograph already busy

an 1868 lithograph already busy mythologizing him three years into the grief — the log hut

The Vintners Mechanical Servant — Patent Archive Print reads like a love letter to the still — gauges

an ecclesiastical genealogy issued in the year Brigham Young's Utah was still negotiating its place inside a federal republic uneasy with its prophets

or a study built around a leather chair and a good pour

and the kind of kitchen where a stein sits on the shelf year-round

The Bridge Memorial, St. Louis, MO, Saturday July 4th 1874 minnesota framed map an 1868 lithograph already busyThe Bridge Memorial, St. Louis, MO, Saturday July 4th 1874 commemorates the dedication of Eads Bridge across the Mississippi, an Independence Day christening of steel and ambition that announced the river city's resurrection nine years after Appomattox. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers