Henry Ward Beecher 19th Century cigar wall art when the republic counted its

when the republic counted its assassinations and found

The Plumed Knight of Maine rendered in campaign-portrait gravitas

The Administrators of the United States Government at the Beginning of Its 2nd Century

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

The imagery speaks in the visual grammar of the lodge: regalia

Henry Ward Beecher 19th Century cigar wall art when the republic counted itsHenry Ward Beecher 19th Century the Brooklyn pulpit's most theatrical voice rendered in the sober gravity of portrait engraving, his abolitionist thunder softened into the civic countenance of a republic now tasked with remembering what it had survived. 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 lithographic publishers