Chronological Chart of American History 1881 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The imagery speaks in the

The imagery speaks in the visual grammar of the lodge: regalia

The Clockwork Heavens — Reynolds' Transparent Solar System — a Victorian astronomical lithograph in which Reynolds rendered the orrery as devotional object

and the slow grinding labor of holding a republic together with proclamations and patient sorrow

Every wrought leg

Republican Platform of 1908 Theodore Roosevelt — the party's printed creed at the close of TR's second term

Chronological Chart of American History 1881 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The imagery speaks in theChronological Chart of American History 1881 a draftsman's attempt to corral a century of republic into orderly columns, dating itself to the year a president was shot in a Washington train station and the long postwar arithmetic of remembrance was still being tallied. 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