The Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame These are postcards from a

These are postcards from a state that always insisted on its own scale

The Publicans Precision Cornelius Beer Tap Patent is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

A Tribute to Worth by His Friends 1842 — a memorial broadside for the free Black Washingtonian whose quiet rectitude outlasted him

The scene reads less like documentation than like overheard conversation

The Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame These are postcards from aThe Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln, 19th Century a self rendered account from the rail splitter turned wartime president, the plainspoken cadence of a man who wrote his own beginnings before the country wrote his ending. Ink set down by the same hand that signed the Proclamation. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and