Death of Lincoln 1875 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Mackay 1912 — a portrait

Mackay 1912 — a portrait fixed at the hinge of the century

Sterling 1918 — a portrait fixed in the sober light of the war's final year

every funnel plume a punctuation mark in America's loudest diplomatic sentence

Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 — a photograph of the gray veterans nineteen years after Appomattox

Death of Lincoln 1875 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Mackay 1912 — a portraitDeath of Lincoln 1875 a memorial print issued a decade after Ford's Theatre, when the assassination had hardened from fresh wound into national liturgy. The scene gathers the deathbed mourners in the Petersen House parlor with the solemnity of a country still learning how to grieve its martyred president. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional