Abraham Lincoln 195 worn xmas tree rendered in the dignified hand

rendered in the dignified hand reserved for veterans' fraternities

his fortune already passing into civic legend

the Franco-American gift rendered with the civic solemnity of a republic learning how to memorialize itself

and any wall that benefits from an unexpected detail

and lonesome ranchland where a single grain elevator anchors the horizon

Abraham Lincoln 195 worn xmas tree rendered in the dignified handAbraham Lincoln 195 belongs to the vast iconography that accumulated around the sixteenth president a portrait study reproduced and recirculated until the long face, the deep set eyes, and the weight of a country at war with itself became the visual shorthand for the Union itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and