Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 huge map of alaska The Kampfe Brothers Razor Brace

The Kampfe Brothers Razor Brace Patent — Instruments of the Morning Ritual is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

The image carries the cold geometry of earthworks and naval bombardment

Abraham Lincoln When Twenty One

kept Britain at bay

A documentary engraving of the thirty-hour shelling that ended masonry fortification forever — Union rifled cannon punching through walls the Confederates had thought unbreachable

Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 huge map of alaska The Kampfe Brothers Razor BraceDeath of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 a mourning lithograph issued in the raw hours after Ford's Theatre, when ink could scarcely keep pace with grief. The image fixes the deathbed at the Petersen House, that narrow back room where a republic, having just won itself, was made to begin again without him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional