Centennial Jubilee Memorial Card 1876 4th of july art The Mädler Delusion — Victorian

The Mädler Delusion — Victorian Dreams of a Cosmic Heart charts Johann Mädler's lovely heresy — the conviction that the Pleiades

and the breweries along Pestalozzi Street smoking through the river haze of a city that once called itself the Gateway

or the kind of library that still smells faintly of pipe smoke

monument-rooms

Centennial Jubilee Memorial Card 1876 4th of july art The Mädler Delusion — VictorianCentennial Jubilee Memorial Card 1876 a hundred years out from Independence, the republic paused to commemorate itself in lithographed laurels and patriotic flourish, the ink still warm with the work of remembrance after a war that nearly unmade the experiment. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic