Thirty-four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink — the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor
Theodore Frelinghuysen — the New Jersey senator and Whig vice-presidential nominee rendered in the sober dignity of mid-century portraiture
An Acknowledgment From the Delegates to the Philadelphia Commercial Museum
and the wave-cut cliffs of Block Island stamped onto linen and lithograph
the Kentucky senator whose oratory bent the Whig century around the question of whether the republic could hold
For President James G. Blaine, For Vice President John A. Logan, 1884 framed_map_capital Thirty-four hours of mortar fireFor President James G. Blaine, For Vice President John A. Logan, 1884 a Republican campaign lithograph from the year of the Mulligan letters and the "rum, Romanism, and rebellion" misstep, pairing the Plumed Knight of Maine with the black eyed soldier senator from Illinois on a ticket Cleveland would narrowly bury that November. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the