City Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 fresno_vintage with Henry Wilson replacing Schuyler

with Henry Wilson replacing Schuyler Colfax on the ticket

Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 — a draftsman's proposal rendered in the civic vocabulary of the post-war republic

when the empire he once attended in Vienna had already dissolved into the unwelcome new geography of postwar Europe

every brick laid in the currency of Gilded Age ascendancy

every clause a hinge between the republic that was and the one being forged in blood

City Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 fresno_vintage with Henry Wilson replacing SchuylerCity Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 surveys lower Manhattan at the close of the century, the old Federal style hall hemmed in by the rising commercial blocks of a city already outgrowing its civic heart. A documentary view rendered with the surveyor's patience for cornices, awnings, and the ordinary geometry of municipal life. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the