Gen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880 xmas tree rustic art conveniently issued as the Indianapolis

conveniently issued as the Indianapolis lawyer mounted his march on the White House

the Martyr President

before the long war made his face the most photographed in the republic

The image carries the weight of a country tearing itself toward something it could not yet name

Gen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880 xmas tree rustic art conveniently issued as the IndianapolisGen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880. A campaign portrait of the Customs House collector turned running mate to Garfield the side whiskered machine politician rendered in respectable lithographic gravity, half a year before an assassin's bullet would promote him into the office no one expected him to hold. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the