William H. Taft, Republican Nominee Barber_Word_Print and slow imperial drift

and slow imperial drift

A lithograph that reads less as gallery and more as argument — continuity offered as evidence against secession

Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait minted in the afterglow of Buena Vista

and ranch gates standing sentinel against a horizon that refuses to end

William H. Taft, Republican Nominee Barber_Word_Print and slow imperial driftWilliam H. Taft, Republican Nominee a campaign portrait of the Ohio jurist turned standard bearer, issued as the GOP placed its considerable weight behind Roosevelt's hand picked successor. The image carries the careful dignity of a man who would rather be Chief Justice than President, and eventually was. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional