Abraham Lincoln 1920 Victoria_BC_map Woodrow Wilson 1913

Woodrow Wilson 1913

its clauses set in dignified type for parlors that wanted the war's meaning kept close

and whether the courts would dare answer

and seat for the first-order Fresnel is rendered with the precision of men who knew that a single misaligned prism could doom a Nantucket schooner

An astronomical lithograph for the contemplative hour

Abraham Lincoln 1920 Victoria_BC_map Woodrow Wilson 1913Abraham Lincoln, 1920. Half a century past Ford's Theatre, the martyred president had hardened into bronze and reverent line work this 1920 likeness belongs to the long aftermath, when Lincoln was less a man than the country's preferred way of remembering itself. 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