First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador prints of Milwaukee 1783 (1883)

1783 (1883)

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First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador prints of Milwaukee 1783 (1883)First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador an engraving freighted with the founding myth of the hemisphere, staging the October morning at San Salvador as solemn theater: banner unfurled, knee bent, an ocean's distance compressed into a single ceremonial gesture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical