Battle of Mexico 1847 spokane_print Robert Cumming Schenck

Robert Cumming Schenck

1893 — a year inscribed on the ledger of the Gilded Age's reckoning

1847 — a memorial lithograph issued in the wake of the Carthage jail killings

Bartholdi's colossus rendered torch-aloft before she was ever assembled — a French gift to an American republic still stitching itself back together

the Republic taking stock of itself at one hundred and deciding whom to remember

Battle of Mexico 1847 spokane_print Robert Cumming SchenckBattle of Mexico 1847 a campaign engraving from Scott's march on the capital, all bayonet smoke and lithographer's flourish, rendered in the season when Manifest Destiny had grown confident enough to mistake conquest for inheritance. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz