Ancient Order of United Workmen 1892 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the Republic addressing its own

the Republic addressing its own first century with the careful sentiment of a nation still bandaging the wounds of the war just past

and the shape of the continent

and the great arcade glinting under gaslight — a Forest City rendered when iron ore from the lakes still met Pennsylvania coal at the harbor mouth

casting the wartime president as a quiet patriarch with Mary and Tad gathered around the open Bible

19th Century — an engraving pairing Bartholdi's couchant Lion of Belfort with the steady gaze of the man himself

Ancient Order of United Workmen 1892 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the Republic addressing its ownAncient Order of United Workmen 1892 a fraternal emblem from the age when laboring men insured one another against catastrophe through ritual and lodge dues, its allegorical figures and clasped hands rendered with the embellished gravity that Gilded Age chromolithography reserved for brotherhoods promising more than the factory floor would. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of