Abraham Lincoln 1877 michigan postcard These postcards remember Dallas before

These postcards remember Dallas before the Triple Underpass — when oil money was new and downtown still wore its banking-house dignity like a starched collar

a likeness rendered in the sober tonal register of a country already acquainted with casualty lists

each insisting it is the true seat of the city

apprentices

Abraham Lincoln 1877 michigan postcard These postcards remember Dallas beforeAbraham Lincoln 1877 a posthumous likeness issued more than a decade after Ford's Theatre, when the martyred president had hardened into marble in the national imagination. The portrait belongs to that long Reconstruction labor of remembrance, when Lincoln's face was reproduced as both grief and instruction. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional