John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 optician_print and any space drawn to

and any space drawn to the founding era — when the republic was still a proposition rather than a fact

and gold rush boomtowns scratched into the Yukon's shoulder

New York Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Erected on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor 1885 — a documentary engraving of the copper colossus rising in pieces above the harbor

The Heroes and Leaders of the Colored People 1883 assembles Frederick Douglass and his contemporaries into a chromolithograph of Black achievement printed eighteen years after Appomattox — a composite portrait insisting

that the nation read the killing as crucifixion

John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 optician_print and any space drawn toJohn Greenleaf Whittier 1899 a posthumous portrait of the Quaker abolitionist poet, issued seven years after his death, when the nation had begun to canonize the New England conscience that once bent so insistently toward emancipation. The likeness carries the hush of remembrance, ink softened into sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,