Lady Washington's Reception 1861 Size:24x18 rendered with the stiff civic

rendered with the stiff civic pride of a republic still learning what its own architecture should mean

Greetings cards from Eureka Springs and Hot Springs trade on switchback streets

when America dressed its origin myth in pageantry and World's Fair gilt

and historical societies along the Atlantic

11th of April 1862

Lady Washington's Reception 1861 Size:24x18 rendered with the stiff civicLady Washington's Reception 1861 a parlor scene of powdered wigs and silk brocade summoned up in the opening year of the war, this lithograph crowds the founding generation into one impossible drawing room, as if the Republic could be steadied by gathering its ghosts. 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