Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth 19th Century framed earth print Washington as a Mason 1867

Washington as a Mason 1867 renders the first president in full Masonic regalia — apron

when the nation hurried to enshrine the men whose wires had stitched its severed halves back into legible distance

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Lincoln and Garfield

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth 19th Century framed earth print Washington as a Mason 1867Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth 19th Century the boyish Zouave colonel whose death at Alexandria, hauling down a Confederate flag from the Marshall House, made him the Union's first martyr and turned a recruiting officer's portrait into a relic of grief. 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