Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the kind of encampment ledger-image

the kind of encampment ledger-image that fixed a regiment's brief tenancy of a border city the Union could not afford to lose

the kind of commemorative likeness a Gilded Age parlor wanted on its wall: the founder rendered marble-cool

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Archival pigment inks on premium canvas

Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the kind of encampment ledger-imageMrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century a portrait of Adele Cutts Douglas, the Washington belle who married the Little Giant at the height of his quarrels with Lincoln, rendered with the soft formality reserved for senatorial wives whose drawing rooms doubled as the antechambers of antebellum power. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical