Russell J. Colt, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame President Abraham Lincoln and His

President Abraham Lincoln and His Generals 1884 a posthumous group portrait assembled nearly two decades after Appomattox

rendered by Smith's patient hand as though the terminator itself were a line drawn between the known and the unknowable

and large-letter greetings sent home between rounds of saltwater taffy and the slow turn of the Trimper carousel

The Bingham Apparatus Patent for a Gentlemans Vice reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause

Available in canvas or framed formats

Russell J. Colt, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame President Abraham Lincoln and HisRussell J. Colt, 19th Century a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography, all starched collar and inherited gravity, the kind of likeness commissioned when a surname had already become an industry. 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 (Currier