Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 5 Size:18x24 A photograph of the wartime

A photograph of the wartime president bent toward his youngest boy — the long face softened

when the Republic was still litigating in marble and ink what the war had settled in blood

the lithograph belongs to that strange Reconstruction industry of Confederate memory

and the artifacts of American memory

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 5 Size:18x24 A photograph of the wartimeAbraham Lincoln 19th Century 5 a portrait engraving of the wartime president, his face already bearing the ledger weight of a country tearing itself toward something it could not yet name. The likeness is rendered in the sober line work of an era that knew it was watching history happen. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical