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Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 3 — a portrait of the rail-splitter turned wartime president

The Eastman Pipe Patent — a Gentlemans Vice 189 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

California Yosemite arrives in lithographed grandeur — Half Dome at dusk

and the studies of people who keep a bottle of rye on the shelf for the right occasion

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 vintage new york Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 3Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre, the fallen president recast in apotheosis a lithograph in the elevated mourning style the country reached for when grief required allegory, and the Union's preservation demanded its first secular saint. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and