Abraham Lincoln in 1863 Size:24x36 where merchants and carriages choked

where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry-goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance

its orbital geometry traced with the reverent precision of a draftsman who suspected Saturn's bands were divine punctuation

its spires drawn with the same confidence the city used to announce that American wealth had finally learned to build in stone

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Abraham Lincoln in 1863 Size:24x36 where merchants and carriages chokedAbraham Lincoln in 1863 a portrait fixed at the war's grimmest hinge, the year of Gettysburg and the Proclamation, when the President's face had already begun its slow erosion into the gaunt, gathering mask the country would later remember as resolve. 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