Robert E. Lee 1865-1871 Canvas_Pittsburgh First Archbishop of New York

First Archbishop of New York

The Vanderbilt Hotel Gilded Age Manhattan Architecture Print renders the Park Avenue tower commissioned by Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt himself — a 1912 monument to Beaux-Arts ambition where terra-cotta arches and Guastavino tile vaults announced that the family's empire had migrated upward into the Manhattan skyline

with grim arithmetic

where Yiddish signage crowded the awnings and laundry lines crosshatched the sky

Robert E. Lee 1865-1871 Canvas_Pittsburgh First Archbishop of New YorkRobert E. Lee 18651871 the surrendered general in his postwar afterlife, the years between Appomattox and his death at Lexington, when the Confederacy's chief soldier became a college president and a marble idea forming itself in real time. 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 (Currier &