Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 old Panama map The Brockett Seal Blueprint for

The Brockett Seal Blueprint for the American Cold One belongs to the great age of American brewing

The Barkeeps Invention Patent Drawing No 316825 belongs to the great pre-Prohibition cocktail era

The scene hums with the particular grit of a thoroughfare that bred both Stephen Foster ballads and Bowery Boys legend

cherry blossoms crowding the Tidal Basin in pink drifts

where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin

Washington and Lincoln, the Father and the Saviour of Our Country, 1865 old Panama map The Brockett Seal Blueprint forWashington 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,