Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma a likeness reissued nearly half

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

sinewy men who made the American turf — silks and stirrups rendered with the reverence usually reserved for generals

Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition along the avenue of new fortunes

A mourning print from the long aftermath

The portrait belongs to that long aftermath

Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma a likeness reissued nearly halfJustus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who, in the smoldering aftermath of the war, dreamed up a brotherhood modeled on Damon and Pythias, regalia and ritual offered as balm to a fractured republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,