Arms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A Victorian orrery rendered as

A Victorian orrery rendered as devotional object

and true enough

Abraham Lincoln 1860s — a presidential likeness drawn from the war years

The American Declaration of Independence Illustrated 1861 reissues Jefferson's founding text at the precise moment the Union began to fracture

fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary

Arms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A Victorian orrery rendered asArms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 a heraldic engraving tracing the General's ancestral line back through English gentry, published at a moment when a fracturing republic clung to its founder's bloodline as proof of inheritance, of continuity, of a Union worth its mythology. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical