1776 Centennial International Exhibition 1876 History of the United States architect where Franklin's likeness was reproduced

where Franklin's likeness was reproduced and reissued as antebellum America searched its founders for ballast against the gathering quarrels of expansion and union

The postcards lean into that Pacific Northwest weather: linen views of Seattle's hill-climbing streets

hero-worship pressed into lithograph just months before the ticket's collapse and the party's own dissolution

sponge docks

rendering the brothers as paired saints of a faith driven westward

1776 Centennial International Exhibition 1876 History of the United States architect where Franklin's likeness was reproduced1776 Centennial International Exhibition 1876 History of the United States a commemorative print issued for Philadelphia's hundred year reckoning, when a republic still bandaging the wounds of civil war gathered its founders, its battles, and its presidents into a single tableau and called it inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional