Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 south dakota print when the work of remembrance

when the work of remembrance had become its own civic office

when Old Rough and Ready's victories along the Rio Grande were already being engraved into a presidency Manifest Destiny had not yet finished arguing for

its terraced shoulders shouldering past a constellation of lesser rooftops

The portrait carries the strange double weight of a First Lady at her zenith and a widow not yet aware she is one

Gen Ulysses S Grant 1868 — a campaign portrait of the Union's hammer recast as candidate

Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 south dakota print when the work of remembranceDesign of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 a draftsman's proposal rendered in the civic vocabulary of the post war republic, when bronze and allegory were called upon to do the work of healing. The centennial loomed, and the country answered in pedestals. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and