Grant in Uniform 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Secretary of the Treasury

Secretary of the Treasury

The face here is the one the country was learning to read for weather

the Brooklyn Bridge strung like a harp over the East River

Brigadier General USA

The Gentlemans Apparatus Patent 38233 belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

Grant in Uniform 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Secretary of the TreasuryGrant in Uniform 1898 a posthumous likeness of the general president in his familiar dark blues, issued thirteen years after his death and circulated as the country was already pivoting toward a new war. The portrait belongs to the long Reconstruction afterglow, when Grant's image was being recast from politician to monument. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National