William Orlando Butler, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1848 Fenway_Park Chrysler — a jazz-age tribute

Chrysler — a jazz-age tribute to Walter Chrysler's stainless-steel crown

rendered in the sober portraiture befitting the man who damned the torpedoes and gave the Union its first full admiral

General Edward Braddock 1899 — a late-century engraving resurrecting the doomed British commander of the Monongahela

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William Orlando Butler, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1848 Fenway_Park Chrysler — a jazz-age tributeWilliam Orlando Butler, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1848 a campaign lithograph of the Kentucky general Lewis Cass tapped as running mate, his likeness pressed into service the year Free Soilers split the ticket and Manifest Destiny's confidence began to fissure. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical