Abraham Lincoln Assassinated April 14 1865 Size:24x36 and a façade that once

and a façade that once housed Caruso

the old general of Tippecanoe sits for posterity — a Whig hero rendered in the confident line of a country still convinced its westward appetite was destiny

The Barbers Machine Patent Blueprint of the Electric Clipper reads as a study in restraint — the close

and the quiet shimmer of riverfront shipyards

rendered in the sober lithographic register reserved for men whose vocations crossed both ocean and color line in the long aftermath of the war

Abraham Lincoln Assassinated April 14 1865 Size:24x36 and a façade that onceAbraham Lincoln Assassinated April 14 1865. A 19th century mourning print fixing the night at Ford's Theatre into ink the war all but won, the President struck down at its threshold, and a republic forced to read its own grief by gaslight. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier &