Army of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 wisconsin postcard 1868 — a domestic lithograph

1868 — a domestic lithograph staged in the year the general traded epaulets for the presidency

when the war had carved his face into something closer to scripture than likeness

where the capitol's limestone dome and the wrought-iron balconies of Quapaw Quarter find their way onto linen postcards and lithographed views — Main Street trolleys

The Barbers Instrument Patent Tools of Precise Vanity comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

Army of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 wisconsin postcard 1868 — a domestic lithographArmy of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 a heraldic ledger of the Union's fighting bodies, each crescent, trefoil, and Maltese cross stitched into the woolen identity of men who marched under them. Rendered the year the guns finally cooled, it reads as both roster and elegy. 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