Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, National Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame dating itself to the year

dating itself to the year a president was shot in a Washington train station and the long postwar arithmetic of remembrance was still being tallied

Florida Miami arrives in flamingo pinks and ocean turquoise — a postcard archive of palm-lined Biscayne Boulevard

well-mannered pride

and dates marshaled to insist that emancipation was not an ending but a ledger still being kept

the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation drafted before the ink of the battlefield reports had dried

Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, National Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame dating itself to the yearHon. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, National Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States, 1860 a campaign portrait of the Little Giant in the year his party split beneath him, popular sovereignty offered as a final compromise to a Union already past compromising. The lithograph carries all the senatorial bearing of a man who had argued the territories from the floor and lost the argument anyway. About the Source Bella Frye