Abraham Lincoln and His Son Tad, 1861-1865 framed selenography Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice

Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait minted in the afterglow of Buena Vista

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Garfield's Prayer 1882 — a memorial lithograph rendered in the year after the assassin's bullet finally finished its slow work

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The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

Abraham Lincoln and His Son Tad, 1861-1865 framed selenography Zachary Taylor: The Nation's ChoiceAbraham Lincoln and His Son Tad, 1861 1865. A photograph of the wartime president bent toward his youngest boy the long face softened, the bound book open between them a quiet domestic moment caught inside the years the country was tearing itself toward something. 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