Death of Lincoln 1875 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame 1886 — a chromolithograph rendered

1886 — a chromolithograph rendered two decades after the smoke cleared above Chattanooga

Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 — a photograph of the gray veterans nineteen years after Appomattox

1836 — a posthumous portrait of the republic's most unrepentant heretic

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Sterling 1918 — a portrait fixed in the sober light of the war's final year

Death of Lincoln 1875 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame 1886 — a chromolithograph renderedDeath of Lincoln 1875 a memorial print issued a decade after Ford's Theatre, when the assassination had hardened from fresh wound into national liturgy. The scene gathers the deathbed mourners in the Petersen House parlor with the solemnity of a country still learning how to grieve its martyred president. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional