Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 Chicago canvas art The Fast Mail 1875 —

The Fast Mail 1875 — a chromolithograph of locomotion at full throttle

Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive — the Library of Congress

The image carries the weight of a South still convinced of its commanders

as if to remind the viewer what the war was actually for

and personal-liberty Democrats answered the dry crusade with ink of their own

Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 Chicago canvas art The Fast Mail 1875 —Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 twins the Republic's founder with its martyr in a single mourning lithograph, issued in the raw months after Ford's Theatre when printers raced to canonize Lincoln beside Washington as the second indispensable man. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,