Declaration of Independence 1884 Highmark_Stadium_Art Washington as a Freemason

Washington as a Freemason

19th Century — a later engraved portrait of the Pennsylvania delegate whose loyalties soured before independence was signed

and civic boosterism shared a single fairground

the year Polk marched the country into Mexico and the Republic narrated itself in engraved vignettes — a young nation already addicted to the grandeur of its own retelling

the year inked beneath him like a small claim against forgetting

Declaration of Independence 1884 Highmark_Stadium_Art Washington as a FreemasonDeclaration of Independence 1884 a centennial era reissue of the founding text, printed when the Republic was busy translating its origins into civic furniture: engraved signatures arrayed like relics, the parchment's brown patina rendered in ink for parlors that wanted Jefferson's cadence on the wall. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional