The Administrators of the United States Government at the Beginning of Its 2nd Century, 1877 Size:24x36 its working chamber pressurized so

its working chamber pressurized so men could dig beneath the Bay while the tower rose above them

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

Soldier Field Original Design from Bella Frye

and wheat-belt skies stretched wide across every lithographed view

rendered here in the fixed solemnity of a campaign-era portrait — a Jacksonian foot soldier elevated to the rostrum

The Administrators of the United States Government at the Beginning of Its 2nd Century, 1877 Size:24x36 its working chamber pressurized soThe Administrators of the United States Government at the Beginning of Its 2nd Century, 1877 a centennial group portrait assembled in the Hayes inaugural year, when the Republic, freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction, paused to render its officeholders in the sober dignity of lithographed ranks. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National