Abraham Lincoln, President of the US, 1862–1864 sacramento_print Lee 1865–1871 — the surrendered

Lee 1865–1871 — the surrendered general in his postwar afterlife

Thaddeus Stevens 19th Century — the Pennsylvania Radical rendered in the severe register he preferred

Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 — an architect's vision for the obelisk on the Potomac

the Casino arcade

Abraham Lincoln, President of the US, 1862–1864 sacramento_print Lee 1865–1871 — the surrenderedAbraham Lincoln, President of the US, 18621864 a wartime portrait of the gaunt prairie lawyer mid presidency, bracketed by the years that bore Antietam, Emancipation, and Gettysburg. The lithograph holds him in the narrow window between proclamation and reelection, when the Union's survival was still an open question. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National