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the bound book open between them — a quiet domestic moment caught inside the years the country was tearing itself toward something

or Verdigris for an aged

his face the founding republic's most reproduced icon

Grover Cleveland 196 — a campaign portrait of the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms

and the unsmiling gaze of a man who held the high ground in July of 1863 and understood

Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse the bound book open betweenDesign of the National Washington Monument 1846 an architect's vision for the obelisk on the Potomac, drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base, before subscription drives faltered and the Civil War left the shaft half built in the mud. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National