an astronomical lithograph in which Jupiter looms cathedral-vast above a diminished Earth and Mercury cowers like an acolyte
his jaw set with the same gravity that thundered through Senate chambers on questions of Union
Arms of the States and Territories of the American Union 1876
A chromolithograph in love with its own engineering — Roebling's cathedral of cable and granite stitched across the river the year it opened
his face hardened into the iconography of a republic still reckoning with what total war had cost it
A View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 NRG_Stadium_Canvas an astronomical lithograph in whichA View of Yerba Buena, San Francisco on July 9, 1846 the morning Captain Montgomery raised the Stars and Stripes over the sleepy bayside village, claiming Alta California for a republic still mid stride in its westward appetite. The view holds that quiet hour before a hamlet of adobe and masts became a city. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional