William H. Taft 19th Century Framed_new_Orleans The greeting cards lean hard

The greeting cards lean hard into open space

the river below them already a Union artery

and the great pre-war years

Andrew Johnson 19th Century — a portrait of the tailor from Greeneville who inherited Lincoln's chair and a fractured Union

William H. Taft 19th Century Framed_new_Orleans The greeting cards lean hardWilliam H. Taft 19th Century a portrait of the future president as a younger man, before the White House and the Chief Justiceship, when Taft was still climbing the Ohio bench and the Gilded Age machinery of Republican patronage was quietly shaping a career that would touch every branch of American government. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,