The plate reads less like an astronomical lithograph than a confession
The Grand Repository New York Public Library Postcard renders the Beaux-Arts colossus on Fifth Avenue in the full pomp of its Carrère & Hastings glory — Patience and Fortitude couchant at the steps
printed when the Republic was busy translating its origins into civic furniture: engraved signatures arrayed like relics
its iron legs threaded into the bay floor and its lantern room drawn with the patient precision of a draftsman who knew the Bay would test every joint
Great Fire at St. Louis, MO, Thursday Night May 17th 1849 alligator reef art The plate reads less likeGreat Fire at St. Louis, MO, Thursday Night May 17th 1849 a documentary lithograph of the steamboat White Cloud's blaze devouring the levee, fifteen blocks of a frontier boomtown rendered as inferno on the eve of the cholera summer that would compound the ruin. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic