Millard Fillmore 1851-1853 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap issued long after his death

issued long after his death

a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic

pressed into the country's bloodiest decade

The lithographer's grid imposes order on a hundred years of contested elections

Millard Fillmore 1851-1853 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap issued long after his deathMillard Fillmore 18511853 a portrait of the accidental president whose signature on the Fugitive Slave Act bought the Union a few more uneasy years. The likeness carries that peculiar Whig stillness, the composed face of a man presiding over a compromise already cracking beneath him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,