Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 Size:18x24 Abraham Lincoln 1865 — a

Abraham Lincoln 1865 — a likeness from the final year

presidential portraits

that great Irish reflector through which the Earl coaxed cratered shadows into legible grief

The Celestial Wheel of Fate Antique Zodiacal Chart turns the heavens into a great revolving oracle

The Celestial Mechanics of Light and Shadow — Part A — a Victorian astronomical plate where the eclipse becomes geometry and geometry becomes prayer

Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 Size:18x24 Abraham Lincoln 1865 — aEquality for All Men Before the Law 1877 a chromolithograph issued in the very year federal troops withdrew from the South, its allegorical title insisting on a principle that Reconstruction was already conceding in practice. The image carries the cruel arithmetic of its moment: a creed printed in bright ink as the law itself was being unprinted. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of