Convoy U.S. Coast Guard Cutter 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Abraham Lincoln 1860s — a

Abraham Lincoln 1860s — a presidential likeness drawn from the war years

the orderly grids of a Midwestern city composing itself in the long quiet after Appomattox

the bound book open between them — a quiet domestic moment caught inside the years the country was tearing itself toward something

Our reproduction is taken from the engrossed parchment held at the National Archives

Convoy U.S. Coast Guard Cutter 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Abraham Lincoln 1860s — aConvoy U. S. Coast Guard Cutter 19th Century a maritime documentary scene of the Revenue Cutter Service shepherding its charge through Atlantic swells, drawn in the patient hand of a draftsman who understood that a hull's sheer line, like a republic's, is held together by tension and trim. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical