Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana 1862-1864 lincoln print The postcard artists worked overtime

The postcard artists worked overtime here

The scene hums with the particular grit of a thoroughfare that bred both Stephen Foster ballads and Bowery Boys legend

the old gods reduced to radii and yet somehow more divine for the arithmetic

issued in the same season Philadelphia opened its great Exhibition and the country tried

Ambrose Everts Burnside 19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose famously emphatic whiskers gave the language a word

Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana 1862-1864 lincoln print The postcard artists worked overtimeOliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana 1862 1864. Morton governed a Hoosier state riven by Copperhead resistance and Union desperation, raising regiments by sheer will when his own legislature refused to fund them a portrait of the war governor who ran Indiana on borrowed money and unbending nerve. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical