Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Abraham Lincoln as a Young

Abraham Lincoln as a Young Man

where ocean breezes once carried the calliope's tune toward Wesley Lake

In the Dark Days

the kind of commemorative likeness a Gilded Age parlor wanted on its wall: the founder rendered marble-cool

civic grief and civic pride rendered in the same patient line

Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Abraham Lincoln as a YoungMrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century a portrait of Adele Cutts Douglas, the Washington belle who married the Little Giant at the height of his quarrels with Lincoln, rendered with the soft formality reserved for senatorial wives whose drawing rooms doubled as the antechambers of antebellum power. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical