General R.E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century bowery wall art when Lincoln had passed from

when Lincoln had passed from president into patron saint and printers competed to enshrine the martyr in parlor varnish three decades after Ford's Theatre

every bolt threaded into Chesapeake mud is rendered with the patience of a draftsman who knew this little red drum had to outlast the river itself

General Benjamin Harrison "Come on Boys

Michigan Detroit arrives in lithographed views of Woodward Avenue at full hum — streetcars

his powdered profile rendered with the antiquarian reverence of an age busy curating its colonial ghosts long after the muskets had cooled

General R.E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century bowery wall art when Lincoln had passed fromGeneral R. E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century General Order No. 9, issued at Appomattox in April 1865, rendered as a keepsake broadside for a defeated South that would spend the next century reading and rereading its measured cadences as scripture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers