A View of the Federal Hall of the City of New York as it Appeared in the Year 1789 smiths astronomy printing the party's planks alongside

printing the party's planks alongside the soldier-president's likeness in the uneasy summer when Liberal Republicans had bolted and Reconstruction's promises were already fraying at the edges

The sheet belongs to the long mourning that followed Guiteau's shot

The image carries the antebellum republic's appetite for speed and its quiet ledger of the cost

Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic

was being drafted in the same ink

A View of the Federal Hall of the City of New York as it Appeared in the Year 1789 smiths astronomy printing the party's planks alongsideA View of the Federal Hall of the City of New York as it Appeared in the Year 1789 an engraving of the balcony where Washington took the first oath, rendered with the stiff civic pride of a republic still learning what its own architecture should mean. 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