George Washington 1893 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A centennial print summoning the

A centennial print summoning the morning the last redcoats withdrew from Manhattan and Washington rode down through a city finally his own — remembrance rendered a hundred years on

The First Journey of Victory 1778-1922 binds two republics across a hundred and forty-four years — Lafayette's crossing answered

The face here is the one the country was learning to read for weather

that splendid wedge of Gilded Age commerce

The Hoffman Closure Patent Blueprint for the Champagne Seal reads like the engineering of a pour — the lever

George Washington 1893 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame A centennial print summoning theGeorge Washington 1893 a late century homage struck nearly a hundred years after the general's death, when the republic was busy canonizing its founders in lithograph and bronze. The portrait belongs to that Gilded Age impulse to varnish memory, rendering Washington less man than civic relic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical