Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Starting Point of the

The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States — a retrospective lithograph fixing its gaze on the first spark

its allegorical figures and clasped hands rendered with the embellished gravity that Gilded Age chromolithography reserved for brotherhoods promising more than the factory floor would

and Victory

Abraham Lincoln as a Young Man

Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Starting Point of theHon. Theodore Frelinghuysen the New Jersey senator and Whig vice presidential nominee rendered in the sober dignity of mid century portraiture, his likeness drawn from the years when temperance pieties and Indian Removal debates shared the same Senate floor, and a man's character was measured in pulpit cadence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,