1839 — a Senate-era portrait of the Virginian Whig who broke with Van Buren over the Independent Treasury
where four centuries after Columbus the republic dressed its industrial muscle in Beaux-Arts plaster and called the result a New World
President Lincoln and Family
These are lithographed views of the First State's working capital
The scene hums with the particular grit of a thoroughfare that bred both Stephen Foster ballads and Bowery Boys legend
Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 old Panama map 1839 — a Senate-era portraitWashington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 twins the Republic's founder with its martyr in a single mourning lithograph, issued in the raw months after Ford's Theatre when printers raced to canonize Lincoln beside Washington as the second indispensable man. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,