Abraham Lincoln, the Martyr President, Assassinated April 14th 1865 framed_Key_West The White City rendered from

The White City rendered from above in panoramic chromolithograph — Burnham's plaster palaces ringing the Court of Honor

The likeness carries the weariness of Appomattox and the unspoken charge of Reconstruction still ahead

The Publicans Precision Patent Blueprint for the Perfect Pour is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

36672b reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause

as a husband in his own parlor

Abraham Lincoln, the Martyr President, Assassinated April 14th 1865 framed_Key_West The White City rendered fromAbraham Lincoln, the Martyr President, Assassinated April 14th 1865 a mourning lithograph issued in the rawest hours of national grief, when Good Friday's gunshot at Ford's Theatre transfigured a wartime president into the republic's first secular saint, his likeness bordered in the iconography of martyrdom. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional