Emancipation Proclamation 1896 Frame Style:Ebony Frame issued thirteen years after his

issued thirteen years after his death and circulated as the country was already pivoting toward a new war

The Bronze Sentinel of Fifth Avenue casts one of the avenue's gilded guardians in the patient gravity of weathered metal — a statue keeping its long watch over the carriage trade

The linen postcards lean autumnal — maples flaring red along dirt roads that wind toward Camel's Hump and the Northeast Kingdom

The Centennial of Our Republic 1876 — a commemorative chromolithograph marking the hundredth year since Independence

Prominent Colored People — a composite portrait gallery of African American leadership assembled in the long decades after Emancipation

Emancipation Proclamation 1896 Frame Style:Ebony Frame issued thirteen years after hisEmancipation Proclamation 1896 a late century commemorative reprinting of Lincoln's 1863 decree, issued thirty three years on as the Republic kept rehearsing the document like scripture, its clauses set in dignified type for parlors that wanted the war's meaning kept close. 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