Honor to the Brave 1865 — a commemorative lithograph struck in the year the guns finally fell silent
This print is drawn from an original painting of the Headless Horseman — Washington Irving's immortal figure from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
and counted in the third year of a war that had outgrown every prediction
a Saturday afternoon ritual stubbornly intact while the rest of the country counted ration stamps
Bruce sits in this commemorative lithograph as the first Black senator to serve a full term
Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 vintage minnesota Honor to the Brave 1865Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 a mourning lithograph issued in the raw hours after Ford's Theatre, when ink could scarcely keep pace with grief. The image fixes the deathbed at the Petersen House, that narrow back room where a republic, having just won itself, was made to begin again without him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional