Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century classy xmas art and ventilator ball are drawn

and ventilator ball are drawn in the patient hand of a draftsman charting the small architecture standing between a keeper and the dark

rendered in the documentary hand of an era still cataloguing what it had already overrun

rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men whose decisions were measured in regiments and graves

Arms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 — a heraldic engraving tracing the General's ancestral line back through English gentry

the great thoroughfare caught mid-swagger in its top-hat era

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century classy xmas art and ventilator ball are drawnAbraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century a portrait of the rail splitter turned wartime executive, his gaunt face already carrying the ledger of a republic at war with itself, rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men whose decisions were measured in regiments and graves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional