In Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Murray's patent drawing maps the

Murray's patent drawing maps the armored gauntlet of the Original Six era

where lithographed views climb New River gorges and linen cards salute the company towns

an engraving steeped in the audacity of a republic that had just refused

freshly conjured from Leverrier's mathematics

In Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Murray's patent drawing maps theIn Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 a commemorative print marking the fall of Richmond and Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the two April mornings that closed the ledger on four years of national bloodletting. The engraver's laurel is fresh, the ink still triumphant, before the country had time to learn what peace would cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive