1865 Jefferson Davis President Confederate States of America Size:24x36 000-year-old obelisk in its improbable

000-year-old obelisk in its improbable Central Park exile

the skeletal tower drawn to outlast hurricanes that had already swallowed lesser lights

These postcards hold the original Mardi Gras town in lithographed bloom: cast-iron balconies

a republic newly flush with overseas territories listening upward

the long shadow of the war still falling across every official likeness of the Republic's nineteenth president

1865 Jefferson Davis President Confederate States of America Size:24x36 000-year-old obelisk in its improbable1865 Jefferson Davis President Confederate States of America. A portrait of the Confederacy's only president rendered in the year his government collapsed ink and likeness preserved at the precise hinge where a rebellion became a memory, and its chief executive a fugitive bound for Fort Monroe. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical