General Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where the Labrador and Gulf

where the Labrador and Gulf Stream collide over the bone-yard of the Outer Banks

and Market Street streetcars crowd the linen plates in saturated Pacific color

1866 — a presidential portrait of the Tennessee tailor who inherited Lincoln's chair and the wreckage of the Union

Colorado Denver arrives mile-high and snow-shouldered — lithographed views of the Brown Palace

his Mississippi delegation rendered in the dignified parlor-portrait grammar Reconstruction reserved for men it did not yet know how to remember

General Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where the Labrador and GulfGeneral Ulysses S. Grant, 1865. A portrait of the Union's blunt instrument at the precise hinge of his fame Appomattox barely cooled, the cigar still lit, the quiet man in the field coat suddenly the most consequential soldier in the republic. 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 &