Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century celestial art print 1847 — a campaign lithograph

1847 — a campaign lithograph rendered in the swaggering grammar of Manifest Destiny

A mid-century rendering of Missouri's capital perched above its river bluff

1863 — a surveyor's record of earthworks thrown up around a city that had already bled in the streets

Born February 12

summoned back into circulation as the Union bled through its third year — the founder's likeness pressed into service as moral ballast

Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century celestial art print 1847 — a campaign lithographDeath Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century a mournful tableau of Buffalo's first Catholic bishop in his final hour, drawn in the devotional idiom of the period when American Catholicism was still proving its civic legitimacy. The lithograph reads as both deathbed portrait and quiet argument for sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,