Abraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency framed razor art the strain — drawn with

the strain — drawn with a seriousness usually reserved for industrial machinery

Battle of Sacramento Feb 28th 1847 Terrific Charge of the Mexican Lancers — a lithograph thundering with the choreography of Doniphan's Missouri volunteers meeting lance and pennant on the dusty road to Chihuahua

A pantheon arranged with Whiggish reverence

taking its place beside the Herschelian Uranus like a newcomer ushered into a cathedral

Abraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency framed razor art the strain — drawn withAbraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency renders the prairie lawyer's homecoming to Springfield in the brittle hush before secession a lithograph of triumph already shadowed by the ledgers of recruits and casualties the next four years would demand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,