American Flag Campaign Banner for Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson 1860 memorial day decor the Whig general felled by

the Whig general felled by pneumonia before the ink on his inaugural had properly dried

its prominences and sunspots cataloged with the feverish devotion of an age that watched Venus cross the solar disc and called it scripture

the Sixteenth President rendered in the somber idiom reserved for martyrs

Theodore Frelinghuysen: Nominated for Vice President of the United States 1844 — a Whig campaign portrait of Henry Clay's running mate

The Barbers Mechanical Hand Patent Blueprint of the Cochran Shearing Clipper is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

American Flag Campaign Banner for Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson 1860 memorial day decor the Whig general felled byAmerican Flag Campaign Banner for Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson, 1860. Printed for the Northern Democratic ticket in the year the party split in two, the banner waves stars and stripes for a Union the candidates could no longer hold together popular sovereignty stitched onto bunting as the country marched toward Sumter. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the