shrine to the prophet of americana

Early colour photograph taken by Léon Gimpel on Autochrome Lumière at the first air show, Grand Palais, Paris (September 30th,...

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Early colour photograph taken by Léon Gimpel on Autochrome Lumière at the first air show, Grand Palais, Paris (September 30th, 1909)

I came of intellectual age in an American Studies program in which the Columbian Exhibition was the key to everything (also: why don’t white people talk in the theater anymore?) or maybe Disneyworld was the key to everything, said the younger olds?

Where’s our glory? Where’s our glory? Where’s our glory?