In Honor of Our Hero 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of

Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 — a mourning lithograph that compresses a life into two dates and a title

rendered long after his pistol duel at Weehawken

where Astors and Vanderbilts traded Fifth Avenue's brownstone heat for sea air and starched linen

The Barbers Implement 1892 Thinning Shears Patent belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

Douglas of Illinois

In Honor of Our Hero 1898 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President ofIn Honor of Our Hero 1898 a commemorative print issued in the flush of victory after Manila Bay and San Juan Hill, when the republic discovered it could mint heroes as quickly as it laid undersea cable. The reverence here is brassy, unembarrassed, the tribute of a nation newly persuaded of its own reach. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional