Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 Chicago canvas art as if to remind the

as if to remind the viewer what the war was actually for

and white clapboard meetinghouses standing watch over the Green Mountains

Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive — the Library of Congress

Portraits and Autograph Signatures of the Framers and Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 Chicago canvas art as if to remind theWashington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 twins the Republic's founder with its martyr in a single mourning lithograph, issued in the raw months after Ford's Theatre when printers raced to canonize Lincoln beside Washington as the second indispensable man. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,