Death of Tecumseh, Battle of the Thames, Oct 5th 1813 (1841) Size:18x24 A Manhattan Memory Suspended in

A Manhattan Memory Suspended in Time catches that uneasy hour when gaslamps stutter awake above the trolley wires and the rally-ground democracy of Fourteenth Street softens into silhouette — a tableau where labor halls

every clause a hinge between the republic that was and the one being forged in blood

empire wearing its Sunday suit

The Boston Massacre 1893 revisits the King Street bloodshed of March 1770 through a late-Victorian engraver's hand — redcoats arrayed in disciplined volley

the old Independence Building shouldering the skyline

Death of Tecumseh, Battle of the Thames, Oct 5th 1813 (1841) Size:18x24 A Manhattan Memory Suspended inDeath of Tecumseh, Battle of the Thames, Oct 5th 1813 (1841) a documentary engraving issued nearly three decades after the Shawnee confederacy collapsed in the Ontario mud, rendering the fallen war chief at the moment American expansion required him to become legend rather than adversary. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical