John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 optician_print Grant 1885 — a mourning

Grant 1885 — a mourning lithograph cast in the elevated grammar of a nation burying its general-president

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and gold rush boomtowns scratched into the Yukon's shoulder

from the Virginian who refused a crown to the New Yorker who signed the Compromise

John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 optician_print Grant 1885 — a mourningJohn Greenleaf Whittier 1899 a posthumous portrait of the Quaker abolitionist poet, issued seven years after his death, when the nation had begun to canonize the New England conscience that once bent so insistently toward emancipation. The likeness carries the hush of remembrance, ink softened into sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,