Portraits of McKinley, Lincoln and Garfield 1901 framed patent art weathered character that suits the

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Portraits of McKinley, Lincoln and Garfield 1901 framed patent art weathered character that suits thePortraits of McKinley, Lincoln and Garfield, 1901 a commemorative grouping of the three martyred presidents, assembled in the raw months after McKinley's shooting in Buffalo, when the republic counted its assassinations and found, with grim arithmetic, that it had now lost three. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and