General R.E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century bowery wall art the mother's shadow assembled into

the mother's shadow assembled into national scripture

his powdered profile rendered with the antiquarian reverence of an age busy curating its colonial ghosts long after the muskets had cooled

parachute jumpers caught mid-descent over the Atlantic

Michigan Detroit arrives in lithographed views of Woodward Avenue at full hum — streetcars

General R.E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century bowery wall art the mother's shadow assembled intoGeneral R. E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century General Order No. 9, issued at Appomattox in April 1865, rendered as a keepsake broadside for a defeated South that would spend the next century reading and rereading its measured cadences as scripture. 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 lithographic publishers