Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 vintage_city_map liberty recast in the iconography

liberty recast in the iconography of foundries and freight — a chromolithograph that mistakes prosperity for proof

the People's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait floated on the eve of the 1848 race

its lantern room and keeper's quarters drawn with the patient precision of an engineer who knew the Patapsco fog as intimately as the mason who set the granite below

Monterey and Buena Vista 1847 — a campaign lithograph that bundles four Mexican War victories into a single laurel and hands it to Old Rough and Ready

Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 vintage_city_map liberty recast in the iconographyDesign of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 a draftsman's proposal rendered in the civic vocabulary of the post war republic, when bronze and allegory were called upon to do the work of healing. The centennial loomed, and the country answered in pedestals. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and