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confident in a union not yet asked to prove itself

and stone façades rendered when Broadway still ran on hooves and ambition

Virginia arrives in lithographed views of Tidewater estuaries and Blue Ridge hollows

Grant 1872 — a campaign broadside for the general's reelection

reads less like reverence than like a republic arguing with itself

Abraham Lincoln When Twenty One, Elected President When Fifty One Size:24x36 confident in a union notAbraham Lincoln When Twenty One, Elected President When Fifty One a paired portrait study tracing the rail splitter's three decades from frontier youth to the man who would inherit a fracturing Union, the same sober face hardened by the long arithmetic of the years between. 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