General Grant 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame A scene that treats the

A scene that treats the bridge less as infrastructure than as the threshold between two republics

Providence's mill-stack skyline

and the steady gaze of an officer who had outlived the War of 1812 to become its living monument

and harbor views where Lady Liberty greets every ship as if she'd been waiting all morning

this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white-plaster pavilions and electric light — the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival

General Grant 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame A scene that treats theGeneral Grant 1885 a likeness rendered in the year the old commander laid down his pen at Mount McGregor, finishing the memoirs that would outlive him by weeks. The lithograph belongs to that strange register of mourning portraiture, where a soldier becomes scripture before the ink has dried. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical