Abraham Lincoln 19th Century Pittsburgh_Canvas and Fifty-ninth Street collide beneath

and Fifty-ninth Street collide beneath the navigator's column

and the great pre-war years

These postcards traffic in midnight sun and Mount McKinley's white wall

the ink barely dry on Appomattox and Ford's Theatre

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century Pittsburgh_Canvas and Fifty-ninth Street collide beneathAbraham Lincoln 19th Century a portrait of the wartime president rendered in the grave register of his age, the long face and hollowed eyes already carrying the ledger of Antietam, Gettysburg, and the slow arithmetic of a Union held together by ink, telegraph, and will. 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