Our Police Faithful Unto Death 1879 Size:18x24 rendered in the sober lithographic

rendered in the sober lithographic register reserved for men whose vocations crossed both ocean and color line in the long aftermath of the war

freighted with the swagger of a navy that had just dismantled a Spanish fleet before breakfast

The Barbers Machine Patent Blueprint of the Electric Clipper reads as a study in restraint — the close

transmuting a campaign likeness into elegy

a denominational census rendered in the grave decorum of post-war American religion

Our Police Faithful Unto Death 1879 Size:18x24 rendered in the sober lithographicOur Police Faithful Unto Death 1879 reads as a civic eulogy in lithograph form a Gilded Age tribute to officers fallen in the line of duty, their names and badges rendered with the solemn pageantry a young republic reserved for its uniformed dead. 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