Battle of Mexico 1847 spokane_print Bartholdi's colossus rendered torch-aloft before

Bartholdi's colossus rendered torch-aloft before she was ever assembled — a French gift to an American republic still stitching itself back together

sent north to argue Florida's case in the marble chambers of a capital that regarded the territory as both prize and problem

1847 — a memorial lithograph issued in the wake of the Carthage jail killings

Ford Field Original Artwork from Bella Frye

The plate renders cometary capture as something almost penitential: wanderers sentenced to orbit

Battle of Mexico 1847 spokane_print Bartholdi's colossus rendered torch-aloft beforeBattle of Mexico 1847 a campaign engraving from Scott's march on the capital, all bayonet smoke and lithographer's flourish, rendered in the season when Manifest Destiny had grown confident enough to mistake conquest for inheritance. 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 (Currier & Ives, Kurz