Committee of Congress Drafting the Declaration of Independence 1865 — a postwar lithograph that returns to the room where Jefferson
mortar flash and powder smoke rendered in the hard line work of a press eager to deliver New Orleans to the Northern reader
turning parlor reading into the long fuse of abolition
the opening land action of an empire announcing itself in tropical heat
Industrial Chart of Liberty 19th Century renders the Republic as a balance sheet of smokestacks and rolling mills
A Nation's Pride, A Nation's Wealth 1884 Broncos_Fan_Gift Committee of Congress Drafting theA Nation's Pride, A Nation's Wealth 1884 a Gilded Age allegorical print in the high civic style, hymning the post war republic's bounty in the year Cleveland edged Blaine, when the country was still tallying what it had survived and what it had made of itself. 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