Hon. James G. Blaine, Republican Candidate for President 1884 Size:24x36 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh arrives smelling faintly

Pennsylvania Pittsburgh arrives smelling faintly of coke smoke and river water — linen postcards of the Point where the Allegheny meets the Monongahela

1783 (1883)

and the unshakable human desire to soar

before Antietam

It is the Victorian astronomer's quiet confession: that every map of the earth is

Hon. James G. Blaine, Republican Candidate for President 1884 Size:24x36 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh arrives smelling faintlyHon. James G. Blaine, Republican Candidate for President 1884. The Plumed Knight of Maine rendered in campaign portrait gravitas, fixed for the lithographer's stone in the season of Mulligan letters and "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" a likeness printed for parlor walls that would, by November, hang above a defeated mantel. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National