Arms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame half a century after his

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when the President's face had already begun its slow erosion into the gaunt

fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary

Abraham Lincoln 1860s — a presidential likeness drawn from the war years

Arms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame half a century after hisArms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 a heraldic engraving tracing the General's ancestral line back through English gentry, published at a moment when a fracturing republic clung to its founder's bloodline as proof of inheritance, of continuity, of a Union worth its mythology. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical