Old Times William H Taft 1908 Ravens_Artwork From American Bondage to the

From American Bondage to the Halls of Congress 1897 — a commemorative lithograph charting the arc from the auction block to the Capitol's marble corridors

A genealogical lithograph in the Victorian funerary mode

The Celestial Mechanics of Light and Shadow — Part B picks up where the first plate left its geometry hanging — a Victorian study of penumbra and umbra rendered with the patience of a draftsman who believed eclipses were arguments God made in shadow

exact engineering of a tool that lived its whole life in the hand of someone who knew exactly how to hold it

The image carries the strange hush of a face the country could not agree how to remember

Old Times William H Taft 1908 Ravens_Artwork From American Bondage to theOld Times William H Taft 1908 a campaign era portrait of the Ohio jurist turned Republican standard bearer, fixed in the year he inherited Roosevelt's blessing and the presidency along with it. The likeness carries the heavy composure of a man more comfortable on the bench than the stump. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical