Washington Monument 1844 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and the firmament a willing

and the firmament a willing accomplice

Jupiter's Captives the Celestial Prison of Wandering Comets — a Victorian astronomical lithograph in which the gas giant becomes a gravitational gaoler

and pinned to parlor walls

Where It Belongs

Washington Monument 1844 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and the firmament a willingWashington Monument 1844 renders the obelisk in its earliest ambition, drafted while the shaft was still rising from its Potomac foundation a lithographer's vision of marble certainty issued in the very decade Manifest Destiny taught the republic to build upward as well as outward. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and