Illustrated Album of Baltimore City and Vicinity 1872 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Abraham Lincoln and His Emancipation

Abraham Lincoln and His Emancipation Proclamation 1888 is a commemorative chromolithograph issued a generation after the war

charted with the swaggering certainty of a metropolis convinced its commerce could outrun the country's unraveling

Washington arrives in mist and evergreen — Rainier shouldering through cloud

Last Moments of Washington 1864 — a deathbed lithograph circulated as the republic he founded was busy unmaking itself

Illustrated Album of Baltimore City and Vicinity 1872 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Abraham Lincoln and His EmancipationIllustrated Album of Baltimore City and Vicinity 1872 surveys the harbor city seven years past Appomattox, its rowhouses and church spires rendered in the patient lithography of a republic relearning how to admire itself. Each plate is a quiet inventory of brick, masts, and monument Baltimore as it wished to be remembered. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National