Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 vintage new york California Yosemite arrives in lithographed

California Yosemite arrives in lithographed grandeur — Half Dome at dusk

The Eastman Pipe Patent — a Gentlemans Vice 189 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

South Dakota Sioux Falls — a postcard collection built around the pink quartzite cascades that gave the city its name

The 4th of July 1872 — a centennial-eve commemorative rendered in the language of a republic still nursing its wounds

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 vintage new york California Yosemite arrives in lithographedAbraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre, the fallen president recast in apotheosis a lithograph in the elevated mourning style the country reached for when grief required allegory, and the Union's preservation demanded its first secular saint. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and