James Garfield and Family in Library 1882 alaska framed map The scene reads less like

The scene reads less like documentation than like overheard conversation

the strain — drawn with a seriousness usually reserved for industrial machinery

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which makes this image less reportage than mythmaking in arrears

the Union's reluctant prophet staring past the viewer toward a country still tearing itself open

James Garfield and Family in Library 1882 alaska framed map The scene reads less likeJames Garfield and Family in Library 1882. A domestic tableau staged a year after the assassin's bullet at the Baltimore and Potomac depot, the slain president gathered among his books and kin a posthumous gilded age portrait that turns Mentor's library into a quiet shrine. 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