Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 grit_definition Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre

1865 — a heraldic ledger of the Union's fighting bodies

California Hollywood arrives in linen-postcard pastels and lithographed glamour — palm-lined boulevards

William Henry Harrison 1840 — a campaign portrait of the log-cabin candidate

the other warning what it would cost to keep it whole as the slavery question began its slow boil toward fracture

Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 grit_definition Abraham Lincoln the Martyr VictoriousBirds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 surveys the Quaker City a year before the Centennial, its grid of row houses and church spires drawn from an imagined altitude where the Delaware bends and Fairmount sprawls a lithographer's claim that the republic's first capital had grown into something worth measuring from above. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National