Bryan 1919
charted with the patience of an astronomer who believed shadow itself was a measurable substance
the engraver's burin softening a defeated commander into the marble vocabulary of Lost Cause remembrance just as Reconstruction itself was being quietly dismantled
Soldier Field Original Design from Bella Frye
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 Bryan 1919The 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,