James K. Polk President of the United States 1845 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the kind of drinker

and the kind of drinker who reads the back of the label

the fallen president recast in apotheosis — a lithograph in the elevated mourning style the country reached for when grief required allegory

The Gentlemans Edge Adjustable Safety Razor Patent belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South

and asked to mean something again

James K. Polk President of the United States 1845 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the kind of drinkerJames K. Polk President of the United States 1845 a campaign era portrait of the dark horse Tennessean at the threshold of his single, consequential term, when annexation, Oregon, and the coming war with Mexico were already gathering behind the calm engraver's line of his collar. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and