1893 Science_Wall_Art for the language of marble

for the language of marble

industrious procession

drawn in the hush between ambition and second thought

A formal courtesy issued from the marble halls of an institution built to inventory the world's goods — Philadelphia's curious experiment in cataloguing trade itself

1893 Science_Wall_Art for the language of marble1893 a year inscribed on the ledger of the Gilded Age's reckoning, when the Panic emptied banks and the World's Columbian Exposition rose in Chicago's White City to insist, against the evidence, that the republic was still ascendant. 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 publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz