Historical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898 vintage alaska map its allegorical figures and clasped

its allegorical figures and clasped hands rendered with the embellished gravity that Gilded Age chromolithography reserved for brotherhoods promising more than the factory floor would

A portrait of the Pennsylvania firebrand caught mid-career

where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin

1863 — a wartime portrait of the Ohio congressman turned soldier

Historical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898 vintage alaska map its allegorical figures and claspedHistorical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898. A fraternal chromolithograph thick with regalia and allegory chains, swords, and veiled figures arranged in the moralizing grammar of late century lodge culture, when American men sought brotherhood in secret orders and stitched their virtues onto banners. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the