A Presidential Reception in 1789 by General and Mrs. Washington, 1876 historic canvas and white clapboard meetinghouses standing

and white clapboard meetinghouses standing watch over the Green Mountains

the old general of Tippecanoe sits for posterity — a Whig hero rendered in the confident line of a country still convinced its westward appetite was destiny

the same hands that hammered copper into a colossus for New York harbor first having shaped a beast from Vosges sandstone

Greetings from the Garden State

where steamship manifests and chalked coat-lapels became the first ledger of a new American century

A Presidential Reception in 1789 by General and Mrs. Washington, 1876 historic canvas and white clapboard meetinghouses standingA Presidential Reception in 1789 by General and Mrs. Washington, 1876 a Centennial year chromolithograph that reaches backward across nearly a hundred years to imagine the inaugural drawing room, the new republic learning its manners as Martha receives guests beside a general still becoming a president. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional