Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 old Panama map where four centuries after Columbus

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

where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin

When John Paul Jones Came Home 1918 — a press photograph of the Revolution's drowned admiral repatriated at last

The scene hums with the particular grit of a thoroughfare that bred both Stephen Foster ballads and Bowery Boys legend

President Lincoln and Family

Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 old Panama map where four centuries after ColumbusWashington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 twins the Republic's founder with its martyr in a single mourning lithograph, issued in the raw months after Ford's Theatre when printers raced to canonize Lincoln beside Washington as the second indispensable man. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,