Ancient Order of United Workmen 1892 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap a portrait of the New

a portrait of the New York Central's chief orator at the height of his Gilded Age influence

and the shape of the continent

and the great arcade glinting under gaslight — a Forest City rendered when iron ore from the lakes still met Pennsylvania coal at the harbor mouth

New Mexico Santa Fe arrives in the soft ochres and adobe shadows of the high desert capital — lithographed views of the Palace of the Governors

the Republic addressing its own first century with the careful sentiment of a nation still bandaging the wounds of the war just past

Ancient Order of United Workmen 1892 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap a portrait of the NewAncient Order of United Workmen 1892 a fraternal emblem from the age when laboring men insured one another against catastrophe through ritual and lodge dues, its allegorical figures and clasped hands rendered with the embellished gravity that Gilded Age chromolithography reserved for brotherhoods promising more than the factory floor would. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of