The Late President James A. Garfield 1881 software_engineer 19th Century — a portrait

19th Century — a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography

Our reproduction is taken from the engrossed parchment held at the National Archives

The lithograph holds him as the country preferred to remember him: stoic

and hung upon a parlor wall

and Ocean Boulevard at high season

The Late President James A. Garfield 1881 software_engineer 19th Century — a portraitThe Late President James A. Garfield 1881 a mourning portrait issued in the months after Charles Guiteau's bullet and the slow, infected summer that followed, the lithographer's hand steadied by the civic obligation to render a martyred president with the dignity the wound itself denied him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical