Grand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge Exploria_Print and Gettysburg

and Gettysburg

a defense argued by the same hands then steering a country through its bloodiest reckoning

gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory

a small acknowledgment of the year's faithful ink

Grand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge Exploria_Print and GettysburgGrand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge a chromolithograph rendering of Roebling's cabled colossus, surveyed from above as if the engraver himself had been hoisted into the harbor air to witness Manhattan and Brooklyn finally stitched together in iron and stone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,