George Washington 1896 Vintage LA Wall Art A lithograph of the Little

A lithograph of the Little Bighorn rendered in the romantic register the nation preferred — Custer upright amid the swirl

his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence

in one shot

confident in a union not yet asked to prove itself

George Washington 1896 Vintage LA Wall Art A lithograph of the LittleGeorge Washington 1896 a late century commemorative portrait of the first president, issued nearly a hundred years after his death, when the Republic had survived its second great rupture and turned again to the founders for the iconography of endurance. 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