American Progress is an 1872 painting by John Gast, a Prussian-born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life during 1870s in Brooklyn, New York. American Progress, an allegory of manifest destiny, was widely disseminated in chromolithographic prints.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress

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    26 days ago

    The sky was never as beautiful as it was before 1492

    Fuck this shit showing my ancestors as the darkness being pushed away.