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

Every bracket and sash in the lantern-room geometry seems set down with the patience of someone who knew the sea would test it

the way the old geocentrists insisted it must be — every constellation hung like a polished bead on Smith's armillary lattice

Grand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge Exploria_Print librationsGrand 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,