The Administrators of the United States Government at the Beginning of Its 2nd Century, 1877 Size:24x36 and wheat-belt skies stretched wide

and wheat-belt skies stretched wide across every lithographed view

rendered here in the fixed solemnity of a campaign-era portrait — a Jacksonian foot soldier elevated to the rostrum

its working chamber pressurized so men could dig beneath the Bay while the tower rose above them

1888 — a parlor chromolithograph pitched at the new middle class

Soldier Field Original Design from Bella Frye

The Administrators of the United States Government at the Beginning of Its 2nd Century, 1877 Size:24x36 and wheat-belt skies stretched wideThe Administrators of the United States Government at the Beginning of Its 2nd Century, 1877 a centennial group portrait assembled in the Hayes inaugural year, when the Republic, freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction, paused to render its officeholders in the sober dignity of lithographed ranks. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National