General Grant 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Providence's mill-stack skyline

Providence's mill-stack skyline

summoning the founder's likeness as the country took stock of what it had survived

A scene that treats the bridge less as infrastructure than as the threshold between two republics

The lithographer's grid imposes order on a hundred years of contested elections

Old Bullion himself

General Grant 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Providence's mill-stack skylineGeneral Grant 1885 a likeness rendered in the year the old commander laid down his pen at Mount McGregor, finishing the memoirs that would outlive him by weeks. The lithograph belongs to that strange register of mourning portraiture, where a soldier becomes scripture before the ink has dried. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical