Lincoln and Hamlin 1860 Size:18x24 Cinque the Chief of the

Cinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 renders the Mende leader in the dignified portraiture usually reserved for statesmen — a deliberate provocation in a republic still arguing whether the men aboard La Amistad were cargo or kin

the engraver's burin softening a defeated commander into the marble vocabulary of Lost Cause remembrance just as Reconstruction itself was being quietly dismantled

The Barbers Summons — Patent Drawing of a Victorian Razor Stand and Service Bell reads as a study in restraint — the close

briefly and bloodily

where Flagler's railroad once hopped from key to key on coral causeways

Lincoln and Hamlin 1860 Size:18x24 Cinque the Chief of theLincoln and Hamlin 1860. A campaign portrait from the season the Republican ticket carried the rail splitter and his Maine running mate into office, the print already humming with the secession crisis it would soon inherit two faces yoked to a Union that would not hold the year out. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and