Castle Garden New York Showing Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty 1887 Size:24x18 when every state bank issued

when every state bank issued its own promises and only the engraver's line stood between solvency and forgery

rendered in the dignified manner reserved for men whose fortunes shaped textile mills and library endowments alike

rendered with the swagger of a man who carried San Juan Hill into the Oval Office and treated the presidency itself as a kind of expedition

The Parker Wine Cooler Patent of 1893 reads like the engineering of a pour — the lever

Castle Garden New York Showing Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty 1887 Size:24x18 when every state bank issuedCastle Garden New York Showing Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty 1887 the old immigrant depot at the Battery's tip framed against Bartholdi's copper colossus, barely a year on her pedestal, the harbor caught in the strange overlap of arrival and allegory. 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 publishers