Camp Meigs 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Washington as a Mason 1867

Washington as a Mason 1867 renders the first president in full Masonic regalia — apron

arranged like cameos in the long corridor of the executive household

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Abraham Lincoln 19 belongs to the long iconographic record of the wartime president — one plate among many that fixed his gaunt features into the visual grammar of the Union

every doorway holding a story the photographer was lucky to catch

Camp Meigs 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Washington as a Mason 1867Camp Meigs 1861 a documentary view from the first feverish summer of the war, when Readville's drill grounds outside Boston filled with raw volunteers learning the geometry of the line. The image carries that early war tension: tents in orderly rows, men still convinced the whole business would be brief. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional