Death of Lincoln 1875 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Isaiah Thomas Esq 1898 —

Isaiah Thomas Esq 1898 — a late-century engraved portrait of the Revolutionary-era printer and patriot

civic offices

A late-century commemorative portrait of the man who mustered Iowa's regiments into the Union ranks — issued thirty years after the guns fell silent

" rendered in the heavy-browed gravity nineteenth-century engravers reserved for men who governed by edict and answered to Lincoln alone

in a barn on DeKoven Street

Death of Lincoln 1875 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Isaiah Thomas Esq 1898 —Death of Lincoln 1875 a memorial print issued a decade after Ford's Theatre, when the assassination had hardened from fresh wound into national liturgy. The scene gathers the deathbed mourners in the Petersen House parlor with the solemnity of a country still learning how to grieve its martyred president. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional