Abraham Lincoln and His Son Tad, 1861-1865 framed selenography Garfield's Prayer 1882 — a

Garfield's Prayer 1882 — a memorial lithograph rendered in the year after the assassin's bullet finally finished its slow work

The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

The face here is the one the country was learning to read for weather

founder of the order whose carved-tree tombstones would soon dot American cemeteries from Omaha to the Carolinas

Drafted for the fair that announced America to itself

Abraham Lincoln and His Son Tad, 1861-1865 framed selenography Garfield's Prayer 1882 — aAbraham Lincoln and His Son Tad, 1861 1865. A photograph of the wartime president bent toward his youngest boy the long face softened, the bound book open between them a quiet domestic moment caught inside the years the country was tearing itself toward something. 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