Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the founding text reissued as

the founding text reissued as civic liturgy for a republic still stitching itself back together a decade after Appomattox

The 1877 dating places it squarely in the long aftermath of the war

when the Gilded Age had a habit of resurrecting Founders to anchor a republic uncertain of its own continuity

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Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the founding text reissued asCapitol of Michigan, Lansing 19th Century. A documentary engraving of the statehouse rising from the cleared pine country of central Michigan, its dome and pediments rendered with the civic seriousness of a young capital announcing that frontier timber towns could, in time, govern themselves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical