Abraham Lincoln Defending Young Armstrong 1865 patent Nadak reads like a fragment

Nadak reads like a fragment recovered from a turn-of-the-century cigarette pack — a tobacco card whose cryptic surname hints at the immigrant ballplayers who filled the rosters of dead-ball America

half founder

the victor of Appomattox photographed as a private man stepping into civic life

or simply someone who looks up at the sky with wonder

A portrait study of the General turned President

Abraham Lincoln Defending Young Armstrong 1865 patent Nadak reads like a fragmentAbraham Lincoln Defending Young Armstrong 1865 renders the prairie lawyer's almanac trial in courtroom lithograph Lincoln rising for Duff Armstrong, the moon's testimony pulled from a printed page, a defense argued by the same hands then steering a country through its bloodiest reckoning. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical