Emancipation 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame struck and re-struck until the

struck and re-struck until the man himself receded behind the marble of his own myth

The Mechanists Shaker Patent Blueprint of Forgotten Innovation is a drawing from the brass-rail era — when the long bar

with the war's smoke barely cleared from the gallery

Jackson's deathbed scene became one of the Lost Cause's foundational images

Emancipation 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame struck and re-struck until theEmancipation 1867. Two years past Appomattox, the engraver's allegory arrives in the long shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment broken shackles and rising figures rendered with the civic earnestness of a republic still arguing, in Congress and in print, what freedom was actually going to mean. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical