Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print and copper seam drawn with

and copper seam drawn with the patience of a profession that measured success by the proof

and the artifacts of American local memory

rendered with the formal restraint owed a man who had served as Navy Secretary before returning to the chamber's marble acoustics of nullification

a posthumous likeness rendered in the iconography of national mourning — the martyred president recast in printmaker's ink for a country still arguing over what his death was supposed to have settled

when photography and lithography were enlisted in the slow

Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print and copper seam drawn withArmy and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 a documentary engraving of the granite shaft rising on Boston Common just seven years after Appomattox, when the city's masons were still translating grief into civic stone and the dead into allegorical figures. 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