Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art The Plumed Knight of Maine

The Plumed Knight of Maine rendered in campaign-portrait gravitas

mid-term and mid-century

where four centuries after Columbus the republic dressed its industrial muscle in Beaux-Arts plaster and called the result a New World

his fortune already passing into civic legend

formed the beating heart around which all the stars of the Milky Way revolved

Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art The Plumed Knight of MaineHeroes of the War 1891 a commemorative lithograph assembled a generation after Appomattox, when the Union's surviving generals had hardened into bronze and lithographic ink, their faces arranged in the careful gridwork of a republic still negotiating who, exactly, deserved remembering. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,