The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old S Dakota print the mother's shadow assembled into

the mother's shadow assembled into national scripture

Blaine and John A

and the long white sweep of the world's longest man-made beach — a coast where lighthouses kept watch over magnolia-shaded boulevards and the Biloxi Bay bridge stretched toward Ocean Springs in lithographed twilight

mitre and pectoral cross doing the quiet work of authority

Harbor of Ambition: Lower Manhattan's Gilded Gateway frames the southern tip of the island in its full mercantile swagger — a harbor bristling with masts and steam stacks

The Bartholdi Statue, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France, 1886 old S Dakota print the mother's shadow assembled intoThe 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,