For President Abraham Lincoln, For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, 1860 Size:24x18 The lithographer's careful shading lingers

The lithographer's careful shading lingers on those famously hollowed eyes

sentries at their posts

The Keepers Blueprint Leading Point Light Station Plans drawn for a modest harbor sentinel where the lantern room sits squat above the keeper's quarters — one of those range lights whose whole purpose was alignment

when bankruptcy and throat cancer pressed him toward the desk where he raced to finish his memoirs

Distinguished Americans at a Meeting of the New York Historical Society

For President Abraham Lincoln, For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, 1860 Size:24x18 The lithographer's careful shading lingersFor President Abraham Lincoln, For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, 1860 a campaign broadside from the autumn the Union began to fracture, pairing the rail splitter from Illinois with the Maine senator on a ticket whose victory would, within months, summon the country to its bloodiest reckoning. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical