DBS 1894 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Franz Sigel 19th Century —

Franz Sigel 19th Century — the German-born Union general rendered in the formal idiom of his adopted republic

Abraham Lincoln and His Emancipation Proclamation 1888 is a commemorative chromolithograph issued a generation after the war

1847 — a memorial lithograph issued in the wake of the Carthage jail killings

the same sober face hardened by the long arithmetic of the years between

the lithographer's hand steadied by the civic obligation to render a martyred president with the dignity the wound itself denied him

DBS 1894 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Franz Sigel 19th Century —DBS 1894 a monogrammed relic from the latter Gilded Age, when initials pressed into paper carried the quiet authority of ledgers, club rolls, and the bureaucratic confidence of a republic settling into its second century. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz & Allison,