Washington Monument 1844 Frame Style:Ebony Frame every brick laid in the

every brick laid in the currency of Gilded Age ascendancy

every course numbered in the patient hand of a draftsman who knew the first tower had already been swallowed whole in the gale of 1851

Portraits of the Presidents 1846 assembles the executive line from Washington to Polk in a single engraved gathering

conscripting the language of 1776 to wage a quieter war against the saloon

Where It Belongs

Washington Monument 1844 Frame Style:Ebony Frame every brick laid in theWashington Monument 1844 renders the obelisk in its earliest ambition, drafted while the shaft was still rising from its Potomac foundation a lithographer's vision of marble certainty issued in the very decade Manifest Destiny taught the republic to build upward as well as outward. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and