Abraham Lincoln 1861 planetary orbits art Grant 1877 — the general

Grant 1877 — the general turned president rendered in the twilight of his second term

The Iron Sentinel: Manhattan's Wedge of Progress renders the Flatiron's improbable prow slicing the seam of Broadway and Fifth

and lantern-room mullion plotted with the cold confidence of men who knew that hurricane surf bends masonry but spares an open lattice

summoned by a reunited nation hungry to anchor its bruised present in the audacity of its founding

Abraham Lincoln 1861 planetary orbits art Grant 1877 — the generalAbraham Lincoln 1861 a portrait from the threshold year, when the rail splitter from Illinois took the oath into a Union already fracturing beneath him. The likeness carries the gaunt composure of a man who understood, perhaps better than anyone, what the next four years would cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and