Historical Sketch of the US and Souvenir of the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus 1897 Victoria_BC_Canada and any space that remembers

and any space that remembers the republic's first turn at world war

July 4th 1776–1876 — a Centennial engraving that gathers fifty-six faces and their inked hands into one civic constellation

The print speaks the antebellum dialect fluently — liberty rendered as harvest

the gaze middle-distance

shorthand for an America newly inclined to project its power across oceans

Historical Sketch of the US and Souvenir of the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus 1897 Victoria_BC_Canada and any space that remembersHistorical Sketch of the US and Souvenir of the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus 1897 arrives in the wake of the Columbian Exposition, a commemorative pamphlet print dressed in the ornamented confidence of a republic eager to braid its own short chronicle into Columbus's longer myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National