Frederic C. Penfield 1923 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Independence Day here is less

Independence Day here is less celebration than reckoning

issued for the year Chicago staged Columbus's fourth centenary and Cleveland unseated Harrison — a republic taking inventory of itself beneath the white domes of the fairgrounds

The plate carries the bearing of a man who believed himself the rightful commander of a revolution

downtown clinics drawn with the careful gravity of a place where the country came to be healed

Frederic C. Penfield 1923 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Independence Day here is lessFrederic C. Penfield 1923 a portrait of the diplomat who served as Wilson's last ambassador to Austria Hungary, captured the year of his death, when the empire he once attended in Vienna had already dissolved into the unwelcome new geography of postwar Europe. 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