American Heroes, Sages and Statesmen of the 19th Century framed map USA a memorial lithograph issued in

a memorial lithograph issued in the stunned weeks after Ford's Theatre

Roosevelt 1933 — a portrait fixed at the threshold of his first inauguration

Abraham Lincoln 1865

and slow imperial drift

each planet pinned in its appointed arc like a hymn the draftsman had memorized

American Heroes, Sages and Statesmen of the 19th Century framed map USA a memorial lithograph issued inAmerican Heroes, Sages and Statesmen of the 19th Century a composite engraving in the parlor tradition, gathering the great faces of a hundred years into one tableau where Webster might lock eyes with Lincoln and Clay shares his margin with Grant, the republic remembered as a single crowded room. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical