George Washington at Mt Vernon 1889 stettheimer poster California Southern arrives sun-bleached and

California Southern arrives sun-bleached and palm-fringed — orange groves stretching toward the San Gabriels

Lady Liberty's Concrete Cosmos: A Manhattan Postcard Relic sets the copper torchbearer against a bristling lattice of skyscrapers

General Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma — Capt

carriages wheeling past the southwest gate of the park in the unhurried choreography of a city still learning its own scale

Manifest Destiny's confidence here meets its private cost

George Washington at Mt Vernon 1889 stettheimer poster California Southern arrives sun-bleached andGeorge Washington at Mt Vernon 1889 a late century commemorative engraving issued in the centennial afterglow of the first inauguration, returning the General to his Potomac portico as the Gilded Age sought a founder worth remembering. The image is less biography than civic liturgy, Mount Vernon rendered as a shrine for a republic still tallying its losses. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the