In Remembrance of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Independence of the United States 1876 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame issued in the order's golden-age

issued in the order's golden-age decade when lodges multiplied across Gilded Age cities and brotherhood itself had become a kind of civic religion

Belongs above a bar cart

when the martyred president had hardened into marble in the national imagination

his likeness rendered with the formal dignity owed a man who would hold the War Department for scarcely six months before Tyler's ascendancy unraveled it all

the proclamation rendered in the hagiographic register of late-century remembrance

In Remembrance of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Independence of the United States 1876 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame issued in the order's golden-ageIn Remembrance of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Independence of the United States 1876 a Centennial chromolithograph issued in the long shadow of the war, when Philadelphia's Exposition urged a fractured republic to count its hundred years and call the wound healed. 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