General James Abraham Garfield, Late President USA, 1882 Size:24x36 mourning a poet whose cadences

mourning a poet whose cadences had crossed the Atlantic long before his death

Grant 1892 — a posthumous likeness of the general-turned-president issued seven years after his death

The secession banner is still in his hand

The Diamond Shoal Apparatus — Engineering Schematic for the Graveyard of the Atlantic reads like a draftsman's quiet argument with the sea itself — a skeletal iron tower plotted to stand twelve miles off Cape Hatteras

dark-walled reading rooms

General James Abraham Garfield, Late President USA, 1882 Size:24x36 mourning a poet whose cadencesGeneral James Abraham Garfield, Late President USA, 1882. Issued the year after Guiteau's bullet ended his brief tenure, this commemorative portrait gathers Garfield back into uniform the Ohio general preferred to the wounded president, mourning rendered as martial dignity in the long aftermath of the war he survived. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National