Governor William Allen Democratic Candidate for Governor of Ohio 1875 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame captured in linen and real-photo

captured in linen and real-photo views from the timber-and-trails era

the kind of likeness commissioned when a surname had already become an industry

and Beacon Hill's gas lamps glow on linen stock pressed when the harbor still smelled of molasses and tea

cataloged in linen and real-photo postcards from the early national-park era

infected summer that followed

Governor William Allen Democratic Candidate for Governor of Ohio 1875 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame captured in linen and real-photoGovernor William Allen Democratic Candidate for Governor of Ohio 1875. A campaign portrait from the bruised politics of the post war Midwest, when Allen old Jacksonian, soft money Democrat stood for re election on the rag currency question that split Ohio down its ledger lines. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the