General Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Summer Sky Atlas a

The Summer Sky Atlas a Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings charts the warm-month constellations as a 19th-century stargazer would have traced them — Lyra

the engraver insisting that the republic was conceived in lodge rooms as much as in legislative halls

his Mississippi delegation rendered in the dignified parlor-portrait grammar Reconstruction reserved for men it did not yet know how to remember

a commemorative pamphlet-print dressed in the ornamented confidence of a republic eager to braid its own short chronicle into Columbus's longer myth

1866 — a presidential portrait of the Tennessee tailor who inherited Lincoln's chair and the wreckage of the Union

General Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Summer Sky Atlas aGeneral Ulysses S. Grant, 1865. A portrait of the Union's blunt instrument at the precise hinge of his fame Appomattox barely cooled, the cigar still lit, the quiet man in the field coat suddenly the most consequential soldier in the republic. 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 (Currier &