Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, 19th Wife of Brigham Young, 1869-1875 lincoln portrait and hung upon a parlor

and hung upon a parlor wall

his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence

when the Union's survival was still an open question

his likeness reissued for a generation that needed Washington's stoic countenance to anchor the noisier politics of Polk's America

years before his radical ascendancy in Congress

Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, 19th Wife of Brigham Young, 1869-1875 lincoln portrait and hung upon a parlorMrs. Ann Eliza Young, 19th Wife of Brigham Young, 1869 1875. A studio portrait of the apostate wife who sued the Mormon prophet for divorce and toured the lecture circuit with her grievance, her composed gaze carrying the weight of a marriage publicly unmade in the long, scrutinizing aftermath of the war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional