Abraham Lincoln 1865 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 1865 — a heraldic ledger

1865 — a heraldic ledger of the Union's fighting bodies

and lithographed views of Michigan Avenue back when the boulevard still smelled of coal smoke and lake wind

and El Tovar perched at the rim like a Swiss chalet stranded in red rock country

its clauses recast for a generation tasked with remembering what their fathers had won

issued in the same season Philadelphia opened its great Exhibition and the country tried

Abraham Lincoln 1865 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 1865 — a heraldic ledgerAbraham Lincoln 1865. A likeness from the final year the face that had absorbed four winters of war, rendered in the gaunt geometry of a man who had read too many casualty lists. The sitter belongs already to the country's mourning, even before the bullet at Ford's. 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