1893 Science_Wall_Art A formal courtesy issued from

A formal courtesy issued from the marble halls of an institution built to inventory the world's goods — Philadelphia's curious experiment in cataloguing trade itself

summoned to remind an expanding nation of the mind that helped invent it

and Loyalty as the creed of men who had survived the war and now drilled

Washington First in War First in Peace and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen 19th Century — a 19th-century commemorative engraving rendering Henry Lee's famous eulogy into pictorial scripture

or simply someone who looks up at the sky with wonder

1893 Science_Wall_Art A formal courtesy issued from1893 a year inscribed on the ledger of the Gilded Age's reckoning, when the Panic emptied banks and the World's Columbian Exposition rose in Chicago's White City to insist, against the evidence, that the republic was still ascendant. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz