Ulysses S. Grant 1877 Size:24x36 a curl of sand bent

a curl of sand bent into the Atlantic where lighthouses keep their long vigils and weathered shingles silver in the wind

a vice presidency he would scarcely live to serve

the great thoroughfare caught mid-swagger in its top-hat era

this is the document that returned a man from the ranks to himself

A postcard sent from the moment Manhattan stopped being a city and started behaving like a constellation

Ulysses S. Grant 1877 Size:24x36 a curl of sand bentUlysses S. Grant 1877 the general turned president rendered in the twilight of his second term, a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic. The lithograph holds him as the country preferred to remember him: stoic, uncomplicated, the soldier still visible beneath the statesman. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,