James K. Polk President of the United States 1845 vintage wisconsin Taft — a campaign lithograph

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

monument-rooms

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

and the unfinished business of the Amendments — had become the quiet center of American power

Chauncey Mitchell Depew 1888 — the railroad attorney turned silver-tongued statesman caught in the year he made his quixotic bid for the Republican nomination

James K. Polk President of the United States 1845 vintage wisconsin Taft — a campaign lithographJames 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