The image carries the weight of a South still convinced of its commanders
Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive — the Library of Congress
an engraving where the terminator becomes theology — that trembling line where lunar day surrenders to lunar night
as if to remind the viewer what the war was actually for
Portraits and Autograph Signatures of the Framers and Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 Chicago canvas art The image carries the weightWashington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 twins the Republic's founder with its martyr in a single mourning lithograph, issued in the raw months after Ford's Theatre when printers raced to canonize Lincoln beside Washington as the second indispensable man. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,