Our Martyred Presidents 1881 vintage bar art and Aquila wheeling across the

and Aquila wheeling across the firmament in inked latitudes

A scene that hums with the particular electricity of a midtown crowd convinced it stands at the center of the modern world

unbarbered gravity of a man who insisted democracy could be sung

mourning the Whig general whose thirty-one days in office turned an inaugural into an elegy and handed the Tyler presidency a country still arguing over what Harrison was supposed to mean

1860s–1890s

Our Martyred Presidents 1881 vintage bar art and Aquila wheeling across theOur Martyred Presidents 1881 binds Lincoln to Garfield in a single mourning lithograph, the year an assassin's bullet at a Washington depot forced the republic to count its dead chief executives a second time. A printer's act of remembrance, issued while the second wound was still fresh. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical