Lincoln and Hamlin 1860 Framed_Toilet_Print The Baltimore Harbor Sentinel Lighthouse

The Baltimore Harbor Sentinel Lighthouse Engineering Drawing charts a screw-pile sentinel braced against the brackish churn of the Patapsco — its hexagonal keeper's quarters and cast-iron legs drawn with the patient certainty of an engineer who knew the Chesapeake would test every joint

A wartime engraving of the first president

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Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 bookends a presidency by its terrible arithmetic — the year of Sumter to the year of Ford's Theatre

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Lincoln and Hamlin 1860 Framed_Toilet_Print The Baltimore Harbor Sentinel LighthouseLincoln and Hamlin 1860. A campaign portrait from the season the Republican ticket carried the rail splitter and his Maine running mate into office, the print already humming with the secession crisis it would soon inherit two faces yoked to a Union that would not hold the year out. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and