Abraham Lincoln 1877 michigan postcard apprentices

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a likeness rendered in the sober tonal register of a country already acquainted with casualty lists

this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white-plaster pavilions and electric light — the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival

the eyes carry the weight of orders given and men lost

as if the climb itself were the instrument of the light

Abraham Lincoln 1877 michigan postcard apprenticesAbraham Lincoln 1877 a posthumous likeness issued more than a decade after Ford's Theatre, when the martyred president had hardened into marble in the national imagination. The portrait belongs to that long Reconstruction labor of remembrance, when Lincoln's face was reproduced as both grief and instruction. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional