His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 Toilet_Canvas_Art drawn with the trembling reverence

drawn with the trembling reverence of a man watching the sun exhale

photographed in the careful civic hush of a city learning how to mourn its dead in stone

the salt-bleached shore of the Great Salt Lake

the kind of commemorative print Victorian-American parlors hung beside Longfellow

exacting hand of a Light-House Board draftsman — every braced leg

His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 Toilet_Canvas_Art drawn with the trembling reverenceHis Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875. A commemorative portrait marking the elevation of the first American cardinal Rome's red hat settled upon a Manhattan see, the immigrant Church stepping into the civic light of a republic still stitching itself back together. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical