Ulysses S. Grant 1892 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the summer heavens pinned like

the summer heavens pinned like specimens to the page

New Mexico Santa Fe arrives in the soft ochres and adobe shadows of the high desert capital — lithographed views of the Palace of the Governors

It is a plate from the age when Leverrier could conjure Neptune from arithmetic alone

1850 renders catastrophe with the cold-eyed reportage of the penny press — a documentary engraving of smoke

its postcards trading longhorn dust for the gleam of Stearman biplanes

Ulysses S. Grant 1892 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the summer heavens pinned likeUlysses S. Grant 1892 a posthumous likeness of the general turned president issued seven years after his death, when the country was still negotiating what to make of the man who had accepted Lee's sword and then stumbled through two terms in the White House. The portrait belongs to that long aftermath, the work of remembrance done in lithograph ink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library