Charles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848 collage tree art Benjamin Franklin 1779 — the

Benjamin Franklin 1779 — the printer-philosopher rendered mid-mission in Paris

carriages wheeling past the southwest gate of the park in the unhurried choreography of a city still learning its own scale

The Keepers Vigil Hooper Island Light Station Blueprint reads like a Chesapeake confession — the caisson's iron skirt and conical tower charted with the patient geometry of engineers who knew the Bay's shoal water would freeze

the whole troubled procession of expansion and equivocation rendered in respectful parlor portraiture

Charles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848 collage tree art Benjamin Franklin 1779 — theCharles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848. A campaign portrait of the grandson and son of presidents, conscripted onto the Van Buren ticket under the banner of Free Soil a party whose single, unblinking demand was that the territories remain unstained by slavery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and