GW Gail Axe Navy Plug 1886 definition_wall_art The image carries the weight

The image carries the weight of Appomattox and the Executive Mansion alike

onto Pacific water

The lithograph reads as both deathbed portrait and quiet argument for sainthood

the work of remembrance done in lithograph ink

Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 — a battlefield lithograph mourning the Whig congressman cut down at Buena Vista

GW Gail Axe Navy Plug 1886 definition_wall_art The image carries the weightGW Gail Axe Navy Plug 1886 a tobacco label from the heyday of the Baltimore plug trade, when Gail & Ax stamped its naval insignia onto every twist of dark fired leaf and trusted the anchor to do the rest of the advertising. 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 (Currier & Ives, Kurz &