For President Abraham Lincoln, For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, 1860 Size:24x18 drawn while the powder smoke

drawn while the powder smoke still clung to the Sierra Madre — Manifest Destiny rendered in bayonets and flagstaffs

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1866 — a presidential portrait of the Tennessee tailor who inherited Lincoln's chair and the wreckage of the Union

Distinguished Americans at a Meeting of the New York Historical Society

The Keepers Blueprint Leading Point Light Station Plans drawn for a modest harbor sentinel where the lantern room sits squat above the keeper's quarters — one of those range lights whose whole purpose was alignment

For President Abraham Lincoln, For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, 1860 Size:24x18 drawn while the powder smokeFor President Abraham Lincoln, For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, 1860 a campaign broadside from the autumn the Union began to fracture, pairing the rail splitter from Illinois with the Maine senator on a ticket whose victory would, within months, summon the country to its bloodiest reckoning. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical