Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 famous pilot quote A documentary engraving of the

A documentary engraving of the Sublime Porte's first emissary to Washington

the Equitable Building's early skyline

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

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Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 famous pilot quote A documentary engraving of theAbraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 a mourning lithograph that compresses a life into two dates and a title, the Sixteenth President rendered in the somber idiom reserved for martyrs, the ink still warm with April's wound. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,