James Abram Garfield 1881 Frame Style:Ebony Frame issued nearly a hundred years

issued nearly a hundred years after his death

Hayes 1877 — a presidential portrait from the year the Compromise seated him in office and pulled the last federal troops from the South

gilding the Midway with the iconography of empire

looked to its first soldier as a unifying memory it could no longer entirely keep

James Abram Garfield 1881 Frame Style:Ebony Frame issued nearly a hundred yearsJames Abram Garfield 1881 a presidential portrait shadowed by its own year, the Ohio congressman risen to the executive office only to fall to Charles Guiteau's bullet that summer. The likeness carries the civic gravity of a republic still learning to mourn its presidents. 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