Abraham Lincoln, President of the US, 1862–1864 sacramento_print 19th Century — a portrait

19th Century — a portrait of the man dispatched from a peninsula still half-wilderness

and the tenement clamor of Hester or Orchard Street

this is the document that returned a man from the ranks to himself

Oklahoma Tulsa arrives slick with derrick grease and Art Deco ambition — a city that called itself the Oil Capital of the World and had the lithographed postcards to prove it

Colorado Denver arrives mile-high and snow-shouldered — lithographed views of the Brown Palace

Abraham Lincoln, President of the US, 1862–1864 sacramento_print 19th Century — a portraitAbraham Lincoln, President of the US, 18621864 a wartime portrait of the gaunt prairie lawyer mid presidency, bracketed by the years that bore Antietam, Emancipation, and Gettysburg. The lithograph holds him in the narrow window between proclamation and reelection, when the Union's survival was still an open question. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National