Horticultural Hall World's Columbian Exposition 1893 south dakota card William Henry Harrison of Ohio

William Henry Harrison of Ohio 1840 — a campaign portrait of the Whig general turned candidate

the states' rights firebrand recast as gentleman antiquity

hushed window before Leverrier's mathematics dragged the eighth planet from the dark

North Dakota Fargo rises from the Red River Valley flatlands as the prairie's unlikely metropolis — a grain-belt crossroads where linen postcards traded views of Broadway's bustle

where four centuries after Columbus the republic dressed its industrial muscle in Beaux-Arts plaster and called the result a New World

Horticultural Hall World's Columbian Exposition 1893 south dakota card William Henry Harrison of OhioHorticultural Hall World's Columbian Exposition 1893 renders Chicago's glass and iron cathedral to American botany in the ornamented hand of an exposition draftsman, where the Republic announced its arrival as a cultural power by housing palms beneath a dome wider than any built before it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical