Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country 1893 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame their names and badges rendered

their names and badges rendered with the solemn pageantry a young republic reserved for its uniformed dead

cannon trained on the harbor

unbarbered gravity of a man who insisted democracy could be sung

the architecture of Reconstruction itself

A fraternal chromolithograph thick with regalia and allegory — chains

Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country 1893 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame their names and badges renderedColumbus Taking Possession of the New Country 1893 a chromolithograph struck for the Columbian quadricentennial, when America dressed its origin myth in pageantry and World's Fair gilt, rendering the planted banner and kneeling crew with all the ornamented confidence of a republic admiring its own reflection. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,