Grand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge Exploria_Print Our President 20th Century a

Our President 20th Century a commemorative portrait pitched at the turn of a new American hundred-year

a defense argued by the same hands then steering a country through its bloodiest reckoning

the way the old geocentrists insisted it must be — every constellation hung like a polished bead on Smith's armillary lattice

gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory

a small acknowledgment of the year's faithful ink

Grand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge Exploria_Print Our President 20th Century aGrand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge a chromolithograph rendering of Roebling's cabled colossus, surveyed from above as if the engraver himself had been hoisted into the harbor air to witness Manhattan and Brooklyn finally stitched together in iron and stone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,