George Washington First President of the United States 1835-1856 Size:18x24 Minnesota Rochester arrives in lithographed

Minnesota Rochester arrives in lithographed views shaped by the Mayo brothers and the medical pilgrims who made this prairie town famous — Saint Marys Hospital rising over Zumbro River bottoms

the Ladies' Mile humming just north of the frame

rendered with the steady gravity of a New England that still believed civic virtue and classical learning were the same enterprise

lesser hands

his likeness drawn with the restraint befitting a constitutional lawyer who argued before the Marshall Court and outlived nearly every rival of the early bar

George Washington First President of the United States 1835-1856 Size:18x24 Minnesota Rochester arrives in lithographedGeorge Washington First President of the United States 1835 1856 a mid century lithograph that hardens the General into civic marble, issued in the decades when a young republic, quarreling over expansion and union, kept reaching back to its first executive as proof that the experiment could still hold. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional