The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old W Indies print It is Keplerian geometry rendered

It is Keplerian geometry rendered as devotion

The United States Mutual Accident Association 1886 trades in the new arithmetic of risk — a Gilded Age certificate from an era when industrial America discovered it could insure a man against the very machines and railways that promised his prosperity

where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry-goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance

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

19th Century — a portrait of the physician-turned-artisan who taught a young republic to print pictures from boxwood

The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old W Indies print It is Keplerian geometry renderedThe Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886. A commemorative lithograph of Liberty newly arrived in her harbor, copper skin still bright, the Franco American gift rendered with the civic solemnity of a republic learning how to memorialize itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,