A Nation's Pride, A Nation's Wealth 1884 Broncos_Fan_Gift as if the engraver were

as if the engraver were charting not the heavens but the failures of those who dared to read them

a republic newly flush with overseas territories listening upward

The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

and open country pressed into ink just as the West was being pronounced finished

the opening land action of an empire announcing itself in tropical heat

A Nation's Pride, A Nation's Wealth 1884 Broncos_Fan_Gift as if the engraver wereA Nation's Pride, A Nation's Wealth 1884 a Gilded Age allegorical print in the high civic style, hymning the post war republic's bounty in the year Cleveland edged Blaine, when the country was still tallying what it had survived and what it had made of itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic