Abraham Lincoln 19 Size:24x36 issued in the long shadow

issued in the long shadow after Emancipation when Black achievement was catalogued in lithograph as both tribute and argument

a map of the United States rendered as a hog and garlanded with the regional dishes of each state

A Gilded Age trophy hauled across the Atlantic by Vanderbilt money

The scene hums with carriage trade and old-money swagger

yacht races

Abraham Lincoln 19 Size:24x36 issued in the long shadowAbraham Lincoln 19 belongs to the long iconographic record of the wartime president one plate among many that fixed his gaunt features into the visual grammar of the Union, the face a country looked to while it tore itself toward emancipation. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier &