Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 Size:18x24 • Unique

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The likeness carries that wild

Republican Nominee — a campaign portrait of the Ohio jurist turned standard-bearer

his nickname already doing the political work that would carry him to the White House two years later — Manifest Destiny in epaulets

its lantern room perched eighty-nine feet above the surge

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 Size:18x24 • UniqueHarriet Beecher Stowe 1852 the year Uncle Tom's Cabin left the printing press and entered the bloodstream of a divided republic. This portrait fixes the author at the moment her sentences began doing the work that statesmen would not, turning parlor reading into the long fuse of abolition. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical