Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 vintage_city_map These postcards trade in linen

These postcards trade in linen skies

an engraving steeped in the audacity of a republic that had just refused

when a single morning's gunnery had folded the Spanish fleet and the Republic's reach into one telegram

The lithograph carries the elegiac swagger of Mexican War mourning — Manifest Destiny pausing

Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 vintage_city_map These postcards trade in linenDesign 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