The Columbus Genealogical Tree of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill. 1893 Size:18x24 The Barbers Covenant Patent No

The Barbers Covenant Patent No

A collection plate for the cataract that made tourism American

The Diamond Shoal Apparatus — Engineering Schematic for the Graveyard of the Atlantic reads like a draftsman's quiet argument with the sea itself — a skeletal iron tower plotted to stand twelve miles off Cape Hatteras

stars and stripes arranged less as decoration than as a creed pressed flat against the page

every bolt sunk into the harbor floor

The Columbus Genealogical Tree of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill. 1893 Size:18x24 The Barbers Covenant Patent NoThe Columbus Genealogical Tree of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill. 1893. Drafted for the fair that announced America to itself, this commemorative chart traces the Admiral's bloodline as if lineage itself were an exhibit Chicago dressing the four hundredth anniversary of landfall in the ornamented confidence of a republic flush with new wealth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the