Mrs Abraham Lincoln 1864 Resilience_canvas the Reflecting Pool's long mirror

the Reflecting Pool's long mirror

the Specie Circular issued

that splendid wedge of Gilded Age commerce

fought in neutral waters under a moonless Azorean sky

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1914 — a commemorative portrait issued decades after the poet's death

Mrs Abraham Lincoln 1864 Resilience_canvas the Reflecting Pool's long mirrorMrs Abraham Lincoln 1864 Mary Todd photographed in the war's penultimate year, gowned and composed for the camera even as her husband's republic bled toward Appomattox. The portrait carries the strange double weight of a First Lady at her zenith and a widow not yet aware she is one. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and