Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century celestial art print 1863 — a surveyor's record

1863 — a surveyor's record of earthworks thrown up around a city that had already bled in the streets

a republic newly flush with overseas territories listening upward

Apache Trail switchbacks

where the founder's likeness has already passed from man into civic icon

Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century celestial art print 1863 — a surveyor's recordDeath Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century a mournful tableau of Buffalo's first Catholic bishop in his final hour, drawn in the devotional idiom of the period when American Catholicism was still proving its civic legitimacy. The lithograph reads as both deathbed portrait and quiet argument for sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,