Garfield's Prayer 1882 victorian astronomy Christopher Columbus Discoverer of America

Christopher Columbus Discoverer of America 1492 1892

drafted in the year of log cabins and hard cider

The Broadway Line Gilded Age Street Scene moves at the cadence of a horsecar clattering past plate-glass storefronts and gaslit awnings

The scene reads like a society column rendered in silver gelatin

and the long arithmetic of casualty lists

Garfield's Prayer 1882 victorian astronomy Christopher Columbus Discoverer of AmericaGarfield's Prayer 1882 a memorial lithograph rendered in the year after the assassin's bullet finally finished its slow work, casting the fallen president in the devotional posture a grieving republic preferred to remember. The sheet belongs to the long mourning that followed Guiteau's shot, when piety stood in for politics. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National