Our Martyred Presidents 1881 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame issued in the long shadow

issued in the long shadow of the war that nearly unmade it — the dates bracketing a century in which the promises of Philadelphia were tested

parachute jumpers caught mid-descent over the Atlantic

Every traced cone of darkness here feels less like astronomy than liturgy

the old general of Tippecanoe sits for posterity — a Whig hero rendered in the confident line of a country still convinced its westward appetite was destiny

Our Martyred Presidents 1881 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame issued in the long shadowOur Martyred Presidents 1881 binds Lincoln to Garfield in a single mourning lithograph, the year an assassin's bullet at a Washington depot forced the republic to count its dead chief executives a second time. A printer's act of remembrance, issued while the second wound was still fresh. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical