James K. Polk President of the United States 1845 vintage wisconsin the flag waved with new

the flag waved with new self-consciousness as Grant sat in the White House and the South lingered under occupation

Taft — a campaign lithograph drumming for the rotund jurist from Ohio

19th Century — an ecclesiastical portrait of the evangelical bishop who carried Low Church conviction from West Point's chapel to the Ohio frontier

where a sober profile was its own argument

James K. Polk President of the United States 1845 vintage wisconsin the flag waved with newJames K. Polk President of the United States 1845 a campaign era portrait of the dark horse Tennessean at the threshold of his single, consequential term, when annexation, Oregon, and the coming war with Mexico were already gathering behind the calm engraver's line of his collar. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and