The Boyhood of Lincoln, an Evening in the Log Hut 1868 Bills_Fan_Gift Ambrose Everts Burnside 19th Century

Ambrose Everts Burnside 19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose famously emphatic whiskers gave the language a word

A selenographer who had mapped the moon crater by crater turned his gaze outward and gave the firmament a pulse

or a cigarette deserved an apparatus designed and patented for its proper handling

Bourbon — warm walnut tone with ornate relief

The Celestial Wheel of Fate Antique Zodiacal Chart turns the heavens into a great revolving oracle

The Boyhood of Lincoln, an Evening in the Log Hut 1868 Bills_Fan_Gift Ambrose Everts Burnside 19th CenturyThe Boyhood of Lincoln, an Evening in the Log Hut 1868 renders the martyred president as frontier child by firelight, an 1868 lithograph already busy mythologizing him three years into the grief the log hut, the borrowed book, the mother's shadow assembled into national scripture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and