James K. Polk, Eleventh President of the United States, 1845-1849 old Ontario map shifting bottom — screw-pile footings

shifting bottom — screw-pile footings splayed across the page like spider legs

George Washington 1852 — a mid-century lithograph of the first president

A press photograph from the opening weeks of the Peninsula Campaign

and salmon canneries dotting the Columbia

James K. Polk, Eleventh President of the United States, 1845-1849 old Ontario map shifting bottom — screw-pile footingsJames K. Polk, Eleventh President of the United States, 1845 1849 a campaign era portrait of the Tennessee dark horse who promised one term and delivered a continent, his sober likeness fixed at the moment Manifest Destiny found its most efficient executor. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic