John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap 1885 — a portrait from

1885 — a portrait from the general's final year

Washington and Nellie Custis at Mount Vernon — a domestic engraving of the General in retirement

Hayes 1877 — a presidential portrait from the year the Compromise seated him in office and pulled the last federal troops from the South

and naval engagements as they happened

John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap 1885 — a portrait fromJohn Greenleaf Whittier 1899 a posthumous portrait of the Quaker abolitionist poet, issued seven years after his death, when the nation had begun to canonize the New England conscience that once bent so insistently toward emancipation. The likeness carries the hush of remembrance, ink softened into sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,