Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century celestial art print A mid-century rendering of Missouri's

A mid-century rendering of Missouri's capital perched above its river bluff

useful martyrdoms by which Manifest Destiny bought its own mythology

Death of General Zachary Taylor 1850 — a mourning lithograph for the Whig hero of Buena Vista

summoned back into circulation as the Union bled through its third year — the founder's likeness pressed into service as moral ballast

1863 — a surveyor's record of earthworks thrown up around a city that had already bled in the streets

Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century celestial art print A mid-century rendering of Missouri'sDeath Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century a mournful tableau of Buffalo's first Catholic bishop in his final hour, drawn in the devotional idiom of the period when American Catholicism was still proving its civic legitimacy. The lithograph reads as both deathbed portrait and quiet argument for sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,