General R.E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century bowery wall art Michigan Detroit arrives in lithographed

Michigan Detroit arrives in lithographed views of Woodward Avenue at full hum — streetcars

when Lincoln had passed from president into patron saint and printers competed to enshrine the martyr in parlor varnish three decades after Ford's Theatre

every bolt threaded into Chesapeake mud is rendered with the patience of a draftsman who knew this little red drum had to outlast the river itself

and real-photo postcards of sod-house homesteads holding their ground against a horizon that refuses to end

issued as the GOP placed its considerable weight behind Roosevelt's hand-picked successor

General R.E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century bowery wall art Michigan Detroit arrives in lithographedGeneral R. E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century General Order No. 9, issued at Appomattox in April 1865, rendered as a keepsake broadside for a defeated South that would spend the next century reading and rereading its measured cadences as scripture. 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