Barbara Frietchie 1896 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame once the tallest point in

once the tallest point in Manhattan

but waged in the brassy idiom of late-century machine politics

A campaign portrait from the twilight of the Whig hour

Rendered in the early months of the war

Barbara Frietchie 1896 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame once the tallest point inBarbara Frietchie 1896 revives the Frederick widow of Whittier's verse, her shawl and Union flag rendered three decades after Appomattox in the soft gravity of a commemorative lithograph the Civil War already passing into legend, its defiant grandmothers enshrined in parlor pigment. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and