Great Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 Swiss Flag Wall Art Lady Liberty's Concrete Cosmos: A

Lady Liberty's Concrete Cosmos: A Manhattan Postcard Relic sets the copper torchbearer against a bristling lattice of skyscrapers

Home of Abraham Lincoln

where blue-coated men posed against the Tennessee River's sweep — the camera catching soldiers who would soon march into the smoke at Missionary Ridge

with Captain Bragg's guns wheeled into the Saltillo highlands where Taylor's outnumbered line held against Santa Anna and Manifest Destiny found its hard

and the moral fevers of a republic still arguing with itself

Great Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 Swiss Flag Wall Art Lady Liberty's Concrete Cosmos: AGreat Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 a documentary engraving of the 1849 Astor Place catastrophe, when a feud between Edwin Forrest's partisans and the English tragedian Macready spilled into the street and the militia answered with musketry. Class resentment dressed as a theater quarrel, and the cobblestones remembered. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive