The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old W Indies print The Speakeasys Secret Prohibitions Last

The Speakeasys Secret Prohibitions Last Breath Patent comes from an era when the distiller was half-engineer

Soldier Field Original Design from Bella Frye

where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry-goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance

The United States Mutual Accident Association 1886 trades in the new arithmetic of risk — a Gilded Age certificate from an era when industrial America discovered it could insure a man against the very machines and railways that promised his prosperity

drawn by hands that sensed the Union fraying and looked to Valley Forge for proof that suffering could still be ennobled into nationhood

The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old W Indies print The Speakeasys Secret Prohibitions LastThe Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886. A commemorative lithograph of Liberty newly arrived in her harbor, copper skin still bright, the Franco American gift rendered with the civic solemnity of a republic learning how to memorialize itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,