Abraham Lincoln 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the date itself is a

the date itself is a kind of elegy

and anyone drawn to Victorian industrial design

It is geometry pressed into liturgy

the Brooklyn Bridge strung like a harp over the East River

struck a generation after the guns to honor the immigrants who bled for an adopted republic

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the date itself is aAbraham Lincoln 19th Century a portrait study of the wartime president, his gaunt features rendered in the grave register reserved for men who carried a fracturing republic on their shoulders. The lithographer's hand lingers on the eyes, where the weight of Antietam and Gettysburg seems already inscribed. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional