Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor 1846 framed bartender rendered in the ornamented register

rendered in the ornamented register of an age that believed commerce itself worthy of pageantry

when the face had thinned to bone and shadow and the war's arithmetic had carved itself into every line

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John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor 1846 framed bartender rendered in the ornamented registerDestruction of Tea at Boston Harbor 1846 a mid century lithograph rendering the 1773 harbor raid for an audience seventy years removed, when Jacksonian America was busy mythologizing its own beginnings. The Mohawk disguised patriots heave their crates into the tide with the stagecraft of a republic that had grown certain of its founding gestures. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of