Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 11th Dec 1620, 1845 howard chandler The Citizen 1854 belongs to

The Citizen 1854 belongs to the mid-century cult of the Founder

when the Cumberland still ran cold past the Confederate works

The scene captures that strange March morning when wooden navies became obsolete and every shell

sash and drum slung against a frame too small for the war he marched into

The building reads less as architecture here than as argument: a republic insisting

Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 11th Dec 1620, 1845 howard chandler The Citizen 1854 belongs toLanding of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 11th Dec 1620, 1845. A mid century lithograph reaching back two centuries for its founding myth, rendered in the antebellum hunger for origin stories Plymouth Rock conscripted into the iconography of a republic still arguing with itself over what kind of nation it meant to be. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,