Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Washington as a Mason 1867

Washington as a Mason 1867 renders the first president in full Masonic regalia — apron

every bolt threaded into Chesapeake mud is rendered with the patience of a draftsman who knew this little red drum had to outlast the river itself

when Grant's image was being recast from politician to monument

Abraham Lincoln and His Emancipation Proclamation 1888 is a commemorative chromolithograph issued a generation after the war

Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Washington as a Mason 1867Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen the New Jersey senator and Whig vice presidential nominee rendered in the sober dignity of mid century portraiture, his likeness drawn from the years when temperance pieties and Indian Removal debates shared the same Senate floor, and a man's character was measured in pulpit cadence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,