Funeral Obsequies of the Late President Abraham Lincoln, Columbus Ohio, April 1865 framed chicago art two old Whigs offering Union

two old Whigs offering Union and Constitution as a last incantation against the storm already gathering at Charleston and Montgomery

lined its harbors with bunting to greet the admiral who had answered the question of whether America would step onto the world stage

The Academy on Morningside Heights: A Scholar's Aerial Reverie floats above the Columbia quadrangle like a draftsman's daydream

grain elevators standing sentinel over Douglas Avenue

leading German-speaking volunteers into a war fought in a borrowed tongue

Funeral Obsequies of the Late President Abraham Lincoln, Columbus Ohio, April 1865 framed chicago art two old Whigs offering UnionFuneral Obsequies of the Late President Abraham Lincoln, Columbus Ohio, April 1865. A mourning lithograph from the funeral train's slow midwestern passage, drawn in the hush of a republic that had won its war only to lose its president in the same breath. 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