George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 coach_print 1847 — a memorial lithograph

1847 — a memorial lithograph issued in the wake of the Carthage jail killings

The iconography is unembarrassed — eagle

Benjamin Harrison Republican Candidate for President 1888

A civic broadside from the summer Cleveland was renominated on the banks of the Mississippi — Saint Louis dressed in bunting and self-regard

A portrait of the Tennessee Whig at the moment William Henry Harrison's cabinet briefly seated him atop the War Department — a tenure measured in weeks before Tyler's apostasy scattered the appointees

George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 coach_print 1847 — a memorial lithographGeorge M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 a campaign era portrait of Polk's running mate, the Philadelphia lawyer whose tie breaking Senate vote would lower the tariff and whose name would be hung on a Texas town just shy of annexation. The lithograph carries the polished confidence of a Democrat riding Manifest Destiny straight into office. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the