George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 coach_print bracketed by the years that

bracketed by the years that bore Antietam

1847 — a memorial lithograph issued in the wake of the Carthage jail killings

had been worn into a kind of national topography by grief

Washington at the Outposts of Valley Forge 1859 — a mid-century lithograph reaching back across eighty winters to find the General among his sentries

George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 coach_print bracketed by the years thatGeorge M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 a campaign era portrait of Polk's running mate, the Philadelphia lawyer whose tie breaking Senate vote would lower the tariff and whose name would be hung on a Texas town just shy of annexation. The lithograph carries the polished confidence of a Democrat riding Manifest Destiny straight into office. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the