George Washington 1876 — a Centennial-year tribute to the first president
The portrait belongs to that long Reconstruction labor of remembrance
Daniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait floated by Whigs who believed the Senate's great voice belonged in the executive chair
The Gentlemans Ritual Patent 94883 comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual
when veterans had begun the slow labor of fixing 1863's longest Confederate holdout into the marble of national memory
Camp Carroll, Baltimore, MD, 1862 Frame Style:Ebony Frame George Washington 1876 — aCamp Carroll, Baltimore, MD, 1862 a documentary view of the Union encampment ringing a city held under uneasy occupation, where Maryland's divided loyalties were policed by tent lines and drill yards. The image carries the quiet of a garrison waiting for orders, the war still hardening into its long shape. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional