and a lantern room sized for the modest reach of a sixth-order Fresnel
it's a daily reminder of what 1776 set in motion
US Shield of Honor 19th Century — a heraldic chromolithograph in the patriotic vernacular of the period
issued in the year Polk would ride Manifest Destiny into office
and any space that takes American political history seriously — the years of speeches that built the country and the divisions that nearly broke it
Portrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York, September 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and a lantern room sizedPortrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York, September 1899 the hero of Manila Bay rendered in commemorative gravity, his return to the harbor staged as the republic's first imperial homecoming, smokestack diplomacy made flesh in epaulets and braid. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the