Depiction of Chicago World's Fair with Allegorical Figures Size:24x18 and the White City of

and the White City of the Columbian Exposition stacked like geological strata in the proud civic hand of a Gilded Age commemorative lithograph

1861-1897 — a portrait of the Mississippi minister who

the year an assassin's bullet at a Washington depot forced the republic to count its dead chief executives a second time

1890s — a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who

drawn by hands that sensed the Union fraying and looked to Valley Forge for proof that suffering could still be ennobled into nationhood

Depiction of Chicago World's Fair with Allegorical Figures Size:24x18 and the White City ofDepiction of Chicago World's Fair with Allegorical Figures the White City rendered as civic mythology, its draped figures arranged in the lower register like virtues escorting the Republic into the machine age. A chromolithograph that treats 1893 as both exposition and altarpiece, gilding the Midway with the iconography of empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the