The Carriers of the Press to Their Patrons, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame presidential portraits

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The likeness carries the careful gravity of a soldier still answering for a battle the army would never quite forgive him for

September 1899 — the hero of Manila Bay rendered in commemorative gravity

rendered in the documentary hand of an era still cataloguing what it had already overrun

The Carriers of the Press to Their Patrons, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame presidential portraitsThe Carriers of the Press to Their Patrons, 19th Century a New Year's broadside in the old newsboy tradition, where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin, a nod, a small acknowledgment of the year's faithful ink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the