Our Martyred Presidents 1881 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the First Engraver on Wood

the First Engraver on Wood in America

the old general of Tippecanoe sits for posterity — a Whig hero rendered in the confident line of a country still convinced its westward appetite was destiny

The Stiles Corkscrew Patent of 1898 — a Victorian Study in Extraction comes from the working drawer of the American bartender — the shakers

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Our Martyred Presidents 1881 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the First Engraver on WoodOur Martyred Presidents 1881 binds Lincoln to Garfield in a single mourning lithograph, the year an assassin's bullet at a Washington depot forced the republic to count its dead chief executives a second time. A printer's act of remembrance, issued while the second wound was still fresh. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical