Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country 1893 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Abraham Lincoln in 1863 —

Abraham Lincoln in 1863 — a portrait fixed at the war's grimmest hinge

Lee at the center

freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction

the Sage and the Patriot 1845 — a posthumous lithograph canonizing Old Hickory in the year of his death

in one shot

Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country 1893 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Abraham Lincoln in 1863 —Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country 1893 a chromolithograph struck for the Columbian quadricentennial, when America dressed its origin myth in pageantry and World's Fair gilt, rendering the planted banner and kneeling crew with all the ornamented confidence of a republic admiring its own reflection. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,