Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., USA, 1892–1893 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Keepers Vigil Minots Ledge

The Keepers Vigil Minots Ledge Lighthouse reads like a draftsman's reckoning with the Atlantic itself — every dovetailed granite course of the Cohasset tower charted against the ledge that swallowed its iron predecessor in 1851

Christopher Columbus Discoverer of America 1492 1892

his likeness drawn from the lithographer's deliberate hand nearly two decades after emancipation — an assertion

Admiral George Dewey USN 1899

the kind of commemorative print Victorian-American parlors hung beside Longfellow

Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., USA, 1892–1893 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Keepers Vigil Minots LedgeBird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., USA, 18921893. The White City rendered from above in panoramic chromolithograph Burnham's plaster palaces ringing the Court of Honor, Lake Michigan at the eastern edge, an entire Beaux Arts metropolis conjured on swampland to mark four centuries since Columbus. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the