New York Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Erected on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor 1885 Size:18x24 freighted with the swagger of

freighted with the swagger of a navy that had just dismantled a Spanish fleet before breakfast

Providence's mill-stack skyline

Martha Washington 1893 — a late-century commemorative likeness of the first First Lady

The Astronomer's Vigil Uranus Neptune Orbital Study charts the two outermost wanderers in the Victorian firmament — Herschel's pale discovery and Leverrier's mathematical ghost

New York Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Erected on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor 1885 Size:18x24 freighted with the swagger ofNew York Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Erected on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor 1885 a documentary engraving of the copper colossus rising in pieces above the harbor, Bartholdi's gift assembled stone by stone in the long civic afterglow of a country still learning how to commemorate itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical