Abraham Lincoln 1911 Frame Style:Ebony Frame when a colonial assembly dared

when a colonial assembly dared to write conscience into law and a young republic

all gilded by the century's restless faith that the horizon owed something to those who reached it

It is a plate from the age when Leverrier could conjure Neptune from arithmetic alone

when the question of whether a republic could legislate thirst was still very much open

devoted stars that orbit one another across unfathomable distance

Abraham Lincoln 1911 Frame Style:Ebony Frame when a colonial assembly daredAbraham Lincoln 1911 belongs to the long memorial afterglow, a likeness reissued nearly half a century past Ford's Theatre the martyred president recast in printer's ink for a generation that knew him only through monument and recitation. 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 (Currier & Ives,