Heroes of the War 1891 Frame Style:Ebony Frame a lithographic meditation on Washington

a lithographic meditation on Washington not as general or president but as private man — the republic

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Isaiah Thomas Esq 1898 — a late-century engraved portrait of the Revolutionary-era printer and patriot

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rendered with the ceremonial gravity the Gilded Age reserved for its rituals — a republic still binding its post-war wounds

Heroes of the War 1891 Frame Style:Ebony Frame a lithographic meditation on WashingtonHeroes of the War 1891 a commemorative lithograph assembled a generation after Appomattox, when the Union's surviving generals had hardened into bronze and lithographic ink, their faces arranged in the careful gridwork of a republic still negotiating who, exactly, deserved remembering. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,