George Washington 1876 S Dakota framed map The draftsman's hand lingers over

The draftsman's hand lingers over the gallery railings and the careful geometry of the focal plane

Penfield 1923 — a portrait of the diplomat who served as Wilson's last ambassador to Austria-Hungary

Pairs naturally with other documents from the Bella Frye Archive — period photographs

here corralled into the elliptical geometry of a Victorian orrery diagram

rendered in ink the color of old parchment

George Washington 1876 S Dakota framed map The draftsman's hand lingers overGeorge Washington 1876 a Centennial year tribute to the first president, struck a hundred summers after the Declaration, when a bruised republic looked back to its founder for proof that the union had been worth the saving. 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 publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz &