The Men of the Hour 1919 Frame Style:Ebony Frame printed in a year when

printed in a year when the wounds of the war were still fresh and the civic appetite for reconciliation louder than the truth of it

1863 — the engineer-soldier rendered in the sober register of wartime portraiture

the founding grievance rendered with the dramatic certainty only a century of hindsight can lend

drafted in the year of log cabins and hard cider

or a kitchen that takes its beer seriously

The Men of the Hour 1919 Frame Style:Ebony Frame printed in a year whenThe Men of the Hour 1919 gathers the architects of the postwar settlement in the brittle afterglow of the Armistice a group portrait of statesmen and commanders posed with the unwelcome gravity of a republic that had crossed an ocean to bury its dead. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers