Chain of Events in American History 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the McPherson Gift

the McPherson Gift

These postcards carry the soft red-clay light of the Piedmont and the slow-drawl confidence of a southern capital learning to wear skyscrapers

shifting bottom — screw-pile footings splayed across the page like spider legs

Garfield 1881 — a memorial lithograph assembled in the months after Guiteau's bullet

the kind of formal likeness commissioned when a man wished his name and bearing entered into the civic record

Chain of Events in American History 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the McPherson GiftChain of Events in American History 1887 arrives as a Gilded Age memory device a didactic chart linking the republic's milestones in unbroken sequence, the kind of civic instruction that flourished in parlors when the war was still close enough to touch but far enough to be arranged into lessons. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical