James Garfield and Family in Library 1882 Cocktail_Print 19th Century — paired portraits

19th Century — paired portraits of the Mormon prophet and his elder brother

the future presidency already gathering at his shoulder like Mexican dust

nothing burns entirely alone

By 1897 the frontier was already declared closed

Andrew Johnson and Others

James Garfield and Family in Library 1882 Cocktail_Print 19th Century — paired portraitsJames Garfield and Family in Library 1882. A domestic tableau staged a year after the assassin's bullet at the Baltimore and Potomac depot, the slain president gathered among his books and kin a posthumous gilded age portrait that turns Mentor's library into a quiet shrine. 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