William R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852 old alaska map and any space drawn to

and any space drawn to the long sweep of American historical memory

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Spanish American Soldiers and Flags 1898 — a martial tableau from the year empire announced itself in Cuban heat and Manila harbor

1884 — a commemorative engraved portrait of the man whose rotary press hurled American newsprint into the industrial age

William R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852 old alaska map and any space drawn toWilliam R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852. A campaign portrait of the Alabama senator yoked to Franklin Pierce on a ticket that bet the Union on compromise King would win the office and die before he could meaningfully hold it, his lithographed dignity outlasting his lungs. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,