The Presidents of the USA, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Train Halted by Fire With

Train Halted by Fire With Crowd Watching

Washington First in War First in Peace and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen 19th Century — a 19th-century commemorative engraving rendering Henry Lee's famous eulogy into pictorial scripture

its looping prisoners traced in the spidery ink of an ephemeris

confident in a union not yet asked to prove itself

its lantern-room geometry and spiraling stair drawn with the patience of someone who knew this light would outlast the men who tended it

The Presidents of the USA, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Train Halted by Fire WithThe Presidents of the USA, 19th Century a composite gallery of executive likenesses, from Jefferson's powdered restraint to McKinley's gilded lapel, arranged like a civic catechism. The lithographer's grid imposes order on a hundred years of contested elections, sectional rupture, and slow imperial drift. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional