Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art and burro trains threading the

and burro trains threading the plaza beneath a Sangre de Cristo sky still pinking at dusk

This Mary Jane Art Nouveau portrait blends vintage botanical motifs with a warm

the French-born merchant who once bankrolled a young republic now rendered in the sober tones of Jacksonian-era engraving

McKinley at the helm and Hobart at his shoulder as the country eased toward an empire it had not yet named

even as the Republic it pictured was already quarreling over Texas

Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art and burro trains threading theSatan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 renders the Ford's Theatre conspiracy as moral allegory a horned figure whispering at the actor's ear, the assassination cast not as politics but as the devil's own commission, ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional