Boston Stock Exchange 1910 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Abraham Lincoln 19 belongs to

Abraham Lincoln 19 belongs to the long iconographic record of the wartime president — one plate among many that fixed his gaunt features into the visual grammar of the Union

The likeness carries that peculiar Whig stillness

when Grant's image was being recast from politician to monument

and a cautious Pennsylvanian became

Boston Stock Exchange 1910 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Abraham Lincoln 19 belongs toBoston Stock Exchange 1910 a photograph of the State Street trading floor in the years just before the war reordered global capital, men in stiff collars working the rails of an exchange that still believed itself the quieter, more bookish cousin of New York. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic