The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old W Indies print drawn by hands that sensed

drawn by hands that sensed the Union fraying and looked to Valley Forge for proof that suffering could still be ennobled into nationhood

It is Keplerian geometry rendered as devotion

Bryan 1919

The United States Mutual Accident Association 1886 trades in the new arithmetic of risk — a Gilded Age certificate from an era when industrial America discovered it could insure a man against the very machines and railways that promised his prosperity

the engraver's burin softening a defeated commander into the marble vocabulary of Lost Cause remembrance just as Reconstruction itself was being quietly dismantled

The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old W Indies print drawn by hands that sensedThe Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886. A commemorative lithograph of Liberty newly arrived in her harbor, copper skin still bright, the Franco American gift rendered with the civic solemnity of a republic learning how to memorialize itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,