Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 Chicago canvas art Surrender of General Lee at

Surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House Va April 9th 1865 — a documentary engraving of the moment the Army of Northern Virginia laid down its arms in a Virginia parlor

A wartime portrait of the president in the year the war turned — Antietam in September

The Lunar Pull a Study of Celestial Forces and Earthly Waters — a Victorian selenographic plate that traces the silver tether between moon and tide

Portraits and Autograph Signatures of the Framers and Signers of the Declaration of Independence

and personal-liberty Democrats answered the dry crusade with ink of their own

Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 Chicago canvas art Surrender of General Lee atWashington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 twins the Republic's founder with its martyr in a single mourning lithograph, issued in the raw months after Ford's Theatre when printers raced to canonize Lincoln beside Washington as the second indispensable man. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,