The Presidents of the USA, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame improbably

improbably

every baluster and cornice rendered in the civic vocabulary of a republic still rebuilding its self-image after the war

or as a meaningful gift

confident in a union not yet asked to prove itself

The Presidents of the USA, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame improbablyThe Presidents of the USA, 19th Century a composite gallery of executive likenesses, from Jefferson's powdered restraint to McKinley's gilded lapel, arranged like a civic catechism. The lithographer's grid imposes order on a hundred years of contested elections, sectional rupture, and slow imperial drift. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional