Liberty Enlightening the World, the Colossal Statue by Bartholdi Presented by the French People to America 1883 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame when Taft was still climbing

when Taft was still climbing the Ohio bench and the Gilded Age machinery of Republican patronage was quietly shaping a career that would touch every branch of American government

when Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac unraveled in the Virginia thickets and Jackson's flanking ghost still hung over the field

and Maltese cross stitched into the woolen identity of men who marched under them

Washington and Lincoln

photographed in the year he would seize Cumberland Gap for the Union before the long

Liberty Enlightening the World, the Colossal Statue by Bartholdi Presented by the French People to America 1883 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame when Taft was still climbingLiberty Enlightening the World, the Colossal Statue by Bartholdi Presented by the French People to America 1883. A commemorative lithograph of Bartholdi's copper colossus three years before her torch was lit above the harbor Franco American friendship rendered in allegory, the republic accepting a gift sized to its own self image. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the