American Scenery: The Inn on the Roadside 1872 Framed_Cubs and Beacon Hill's gas lamps

and Beacon Hill's gas lamps glow on linen stock pressed when the harbor still smelled of molasses and tea

A commemorative lithograph of Bartholdi's copper colossus three years before her torch was lit above the harbor — Franco-American friendship rendered in allegory

Triennial Committee KT City of Chicago Illinois 1880s — a Knights Templar conclave document from the Gilded Age Midwest

Grant 1885 — a mourning lithograph cast in the elevated grammar of a nation burying its general-president

American Scenery: The Inn on the Roadside 1872 Framed_Cubs and Beacon Hill's gas lampsAmerican Scenery: The Inn on the Roadside 1872 is a documentary engraving of a wayside tavern at the height of the Grant years, when the country, still bandaging itself, found quiet comfort in the small theaters of arrival and departure a porch, a coach, a lantern lit against the dusk. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,