Origin and History of the Stars and Stripes 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln

The Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln

the People's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait floated on the eve of the 1848 race

the immigrant Church stepping into the civic light of a republic still stitching itself back together

Washington DC arrives in lithographed marble and linen sky — the Capitol dome

The likeness carries that peculiar Whig stillness

Origin and History of the Stars and Stripes 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Autobiography of Abraham LincolnOrigin and History of the Stars and Stripes 1899 traces the banner from its earliest cantons and crude field stitched stripes to the standardized flag of a reunited republic, a turn of the century exercise in civic remembrance that treats the flag less as cloth than as a chronicle of the nation that raised it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,