The Right Reverend John S. Foley, D.D., Bishop of Detroit, Mich., USA, 1889 Size:24x36 The Keepers Blueprint Baltimore Harbor

The Keepers Blueprint Baltimore Harbor Light Station Plans of 1885 charts the caisson-set sentinel that would rise from the soft Patapsco bottom — a pneumatic foundation sunk through Chesapeake silt

drafted while the shaft was still rising from its Potomac foundation — a lithographer's vision of marble certainty issued in the very decade Manifest Destiny taught the republic to build upward as well as outward

Prang) who documented the republic from its founding through the early twentieth century

Jupiter's Captives the Celestial Prison of Wandering Comets — a Victorian astronomical lithograph in which the gas giant becomes a gravitational gaoler

The Publicans Apparatus Beer Pump Patent Drawing reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

The Right Reverend John S. Foley, D.D., Bishop of Detroit, Mich., USA, 1889 Size:24x36 The Keepers Blueprint Baltimore HarborThe Right Reverend John S. Foley, D. D., Bishop of Detroit, Mich., USA, 1889 an episcopal portrait struck the year of Foley's elevation to the Detroit see, the prelate rendered with the grave composure that Gilded Age Catholicism reserved for its American shepherds, mitre and pectoral cross doing the quiet work of authority. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National