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Abraham Lincoln 1877 — a posthumous likeness issued more than a decade after Ford's Theatre

Stewart's Grove

A fraternal emblem from the nativist workingmen's lodges that flourished in the shadow of antebellum immigration debates — compass

North Dakota Fargo rises from the Red River Valley flatlands as the prairie's unlikely metropolis — a grain-belt crossroads where linen postcards traded views of Broadway's bustle

Horticultural Hall World's Columbian Exposition 1893 south dakota card Abraham Lincoln 1877 — aHorticultural Hall World's Columbian Exposition 1893 renders Chicago's glass and iron cathedral to American botany in the ornamented hand of an exposition draftsman, where the Republic announced its arrival as a cultural power by housing palms beneath a dome wider than any built before it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical