Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 vintage minnesota and the ordinary geometry of

and the ordinary geometry of municipal life

The scene captures the February evening that gave a generation its rallying cry

Honor to the Brave 1865 — a commemorative lithograph struck in the year the guns finally fell silent

issued a hundred years after Philadelphia's audacity

a Saturday afternoon ritual stubbornly intact while the rest of the country counted ration stamps

Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 vintage minnesota and the ordinary geometry ofDeath of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 a mourning lithograph issued in the raw hours after Ford's Theatre, when ink could scarcely keep pace with grief. The image fixes the deathbed at the Petersen House, that narrow back room where a republic, having just won itself, was made to begin again without him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional