General Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap his Mississippi delegation rendered in

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

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

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

The Summer Sky Atlas a Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings charts the warm-month constellations as a 19th-century stargazer would have traced them — Lyra

a commemorative pamphlet-print dressed in the ornamented confidence of a republic eager to braid its own short chronicle into Columbus's longer myth

General Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap his Mississippi delegation rendered inGeneral 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 &