A View of the Columbian Exposition 1893 vintage map New York A chromolithograph rallying the Northern

A chromolithograph rallying the Northern imagination at the very moment of rupture

Robert Louis Stevenson 199 — a portrait of the Scottish novelist whose American sojourns from Saranac Lake to the Pacific made him a fixture of late-century literary celebrity

the Reflecting Pool's long mirror

Arms of the United States of America 1864 renders the national heraldry mid-rupture — eagle

dressing Spanish ambition in the solemn drapery of American memory

A View of the Columbian Exposition 1893 vintage map New York A chromolithograph rallying the NorthernA View of the Columbian Exposition 1893 a chromolithograph of the White City rising along Lake Michigan, where Beaux Arts faades and electric light announced that the republic, four centuries after Columbus, had arrived as an industrial power dressed in plaster and gilt. 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