Abraham Lincoln Late President of the United States Assassinated April 14th 1865, 19th Century motivation_art the McPherson Gift

the McPherson Gift

and elevated rails converge beneath the bronze bell-ringers of Bennett's newspaper palace

Times — a scene drawn from the electric crossroads where Broadway bends into Seventh

its first-order Fresnel apparatus and keeper's quarters platted with the patience of men who knew this stretch of Pacific had already swallowed the names carved into its charts

the names fifty-six men signed

Abraham Lincoln Late President of the United States Assassinated April 14th 1865, 19th Century motivation_art the McPherson GiftAbraham Lincoln Late President of the United States Assassinated April 14th 1865, 19th Century. A mourning lithograph issued in the raw aftermath of Ford's Theatre, fixing the martyred president in the public eye just as the war's last embers cooled. The word Late does the heaviest lifting a single adjective announcing a republic suddenly without its steward. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the