The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old S Dakota print mitre and pectoral cross doing

mitre and pectoral cross doing the quiet work of authority

the mother's shadow assembled into national scripture

rendered in the sober lithographic register reserved for men whose vocations crossed both ocean and color line in the long aftermath of the war

Blaine and John A

Harbor of Ambition: Lower Manhattan's Gilded Gateway frames the southern tip of the island in its full mercantile swagger — a harbor bristling with masts and steam stacks

The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old S Dakota print mitre and pectoral cross doingThe Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886. A commemorative lithograph of Liberty newly arrived in her harbor, copper skin still bright, the Franco American gift rendered with the civic solemnity of a republic learning how to memorialize itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,