Abraham Lincoln 1877 michigan postcard as if the climb itself

as if the climb itself were the instrument of the light

each insisting it is the true seat of the city

These postcards remember Dallas before the Triple Underpass — when oil money was new and downtown still wore its banking-house dignity like a starched collar

Old Bullion himself

this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white-plaster pavilions and electric light — the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival

Abraham Lincoln 1877 michigan postcard as if the climb itselfAbraham Lincoln 1877 a posthumous likeness issued more than a decade after Ford's Theatre, when the martyred president had hardened into marble in the national imagination. The portrait belongs to that long Reconstruction labor of remembrance, when Lincoln's face was reproduced as both grief and instruction. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional