Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 vintage_city_map Monterey and Buena Vista 1847

Monterey and Buena Vista 1847 — a campaign lithograph that bundles four Mexican War victories into a single laurel and hands it to Old Rough and Ready

its lantern room and keeper's quarters drawn with the patient precision of an engineer who knew the Patapsco fog as intimately as the mason who set the granite below

The lithograph carries the elegiac swagger of Mexican War mourning — Manifest Destiny pausing

73435 captures one of those workhorse innovations that quietly defined how a glass of beer got from cellar to tap — a piece of equipment whose elegance was invisible to the drinker

Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 vintage_city_map Monterey and Buena Vista 1847Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 a draftsman's proposal rendered in the civic vocabulary of the post war republic, when bronze and allegory were called upon to do the work of healing. The centennial loomed, and the country answered in pedestals. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and