Landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock 1620 Orioles_Poster rendered in the sober portraiture

rendered in the sober portraiture befitting the man who damned the torpedoes and gave the Union its first full admiral

an army arranged like a wager

statesmen in high collars

174281 Toe and Ballet Slipper by Salvatore Capezio March 5 1929 — Capezio's filing dissects the toe shoe with a cobbler's reverence

as if the Florida sun itself had soaked into the ink

Landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock 1620 Orioles_Poster rendered in the sober portraitureLanding of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock 1620 a commemorative lithograph rendered in the founding myth grammar of post war America, where the cold December shore at Plymouth becomes a civic altar and the Mayflower's passengers are arranged less as refugees than as the opening tableau of a republic still arguing over what it had survived. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,