DBS 1894 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the lithographer's hand steadied by

the lithographer's hand steadied by the civic obligation to render a martyred president with the dignity the wound itself denied him

Franz Sigel 19th Century — the German-born Union general rendered in the formal idiom of his adopted republic

from the Virginian who refused a crown to the New Yorker who signed the Compromise

sterner century

DBS 1894 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the lithographer's hand steadied byDBS 1894 a monogrammed relic from the latter Gilded Age, when initials pressed into paper carried the quiet authority of ledgers, club rolls, and the bureaucratic confidence of a republic settling into its second century. 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 publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz & Allison,