Pioneers of America: Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way 1897 old Ontario print sent when Wilmington still called

sent when Wilmington still called itself the Chemical Capital of the World

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on his collar marking him as a citizen-soldier of empire's loud debut

Pioneers of America: Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way 1897 borrows Bishop Berkeley's old prophecy and dresses it in late-century chromolithograph splendor — wagon wheels

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Pioneers of America: Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way 1897 old Ontario print sent when Wilmington still calledPioneers of America: Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way 1897 borrows Bishop Berkeley's old prophecy and dresses it in late century chromolithograph splendor wagon wheels, trail dust, and the long American habit of mistaking momentum for destiny. By 1897 the frontier was already declared closed, which makes this image less reportage than mythmaking in arrears. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical