I Feed You All! 1875 vintage america art when machine politics still wore

when machine politics still wore the costume of civic virtue

Washington arrives in mist and evergreen — Rainier shouldering through cloud

each planet pinned in its appointed arc like a hymn the draftsman had memorized

A documentary view of the New York Volunteers garrisoning the earthworks above Baltimore harbor

and Grant's State Department

I Feed You All! 1875 vintage america art when machine politics still woreI Feed You All! 1875 a Gilded Age allegorical lithograph in which the American farmer stands at the center of the republic's economy, flanked by preacher, soldier, merchant, and statesman, each fed by his labor. The print reads as agrarian protest dressed in pageant, a Granger era reckoning with who truly sustained the nation. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National