City of New York From Jersey City 1849 framed astrology its allegory ripening in a

its allegory ripening in a year when Lincoln and Douglas were still arguing the future of the Union from Illinois platforms

Indiana Indianapolis arrives by way of the Crossroads of America — Monument Circle rising at the center of every lithographed view

Thomas Hart Benton Senator From Missouri 1837

The Celestial Orrery Victorian Solar System Observatory Print is the heavens reduced to brass and reverence — concentric orbits wheeling around a small

before subscription drives faltered and the Civil War left the shaft half-built in the mud

City of New York From Jersey City 1849 framed astrology its allegory ripening in aCity of New York From Jersey City 1849. A panoramic lithograph drawn across the Hudson's working water, masts and steeples crowding the skyline of a port city already swelling toward empire the harbor still antebellum, still innocent of the rupture a dozen years out. 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