Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma a likeness reissued nearly half

a likeness reissued nearly half a century past Ford's Theatre — the martyred president recast in printer's ink for a generation that knew him only through monument and recitation

The portrait belongs to that long aftermath

his sober likeness fixed at the moment Manifest Destiny found its most efficient executor

sinewy men who made the American turf — silks and stirrups rendered with the reverence usually reserved for generals

Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition along the avenue of new fortunes

Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma a likeness reissued nearly halfJustus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who, in the smoldering aftermath of the war, dreamed up a brotherhood modeled on Damon and Pythias, regalia and ritual offered as balm to a fractured republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,