Abraham Lincoln 1920 new york northeast arm-and-hammer

arm-and-hammer

struck a generation after the guns to honor the immigrants who bled for an adopted republic

had been worn into a kind of national topography by grief

The Gentlemans Flame Patent 582387 is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

rendering the brothers as paired saints of a faith driven westward

Abraham Lincoln 1920 new york northeast arm-and-hammerAbraham Lincoln, 1920. Half a century past Ford's Theatre, the martyred president had hardened into bronze and reverent line work this 1920 likeness belongs to the long aftermath, when Lincoln was less a man than the country's preferred way of remembering itself. 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