Depiction of Chicago World's Fair with Allegorical Figures Size:24x18 drawn by hands that sensed

drawn by hands that sensed the Union fraying and looked to Valley Forge for proof that suffering could still be ennobled into nationhood

when the Republic was still litigating in marble and ink what the war had settled in blood

Cinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 renders the Mende leader in the dignified portraiture usually reserved for statesmen — a deliberate provocation in a republic still arguing whether the men aboard La Amistad were cargo or kin

issued when the republic he founded was already straining at its seams

and the White City of the Columbian Exposition stacked like geological strata in the proud civic hand of a Gilded Age commemorative lithograph

Depiction of Chicago World's Fair with Allegorical Figures Size:24x18 drawn by hands that sensedDepiction of Chicago World's Fair with Allegorical Figures the White City rendered as civic mythology, its draped figures arranged in the lower register like virtues escorting the Republic into the machine age. A chromolithograph that treats 1893 as both exposition and altarpiece, gilding the Midway with the iconography of empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the