New Cathedral of New York Fifth Avenue 1859 Size:24x36 drawn in the spidery iron

drawn in the spidery iron logic of the 1850s

The image carries that pivot: a republic deciding to try again

Sept 17 1862

1851-1857 — a portrait of the Floridian planter who carried his territory's voice to Washington and its militia colors into the Seminole campaigns

the prelate rendered with the grave composure that Gilded Age Catholicism reserved for its American shepherds

New Cathedral of New York Fifth Avenue 1859 Size:24x36 drawn in the spidery ironNew Cathedral of New York Fifth Avenue 1859. An architect's vision of St. Patrick's rising from what was then the upper reaches of Manhattan, its Gothic spires drawn with the confidence of a Catholic immigrant city demanding a cathedral worthy of Europe and a Fifth Avenue still half pasture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical