Major General Zachary Taylor 1847 catches Old Rough and Ready at the height of his Mexican War celebrity
Henry Clay of Kentucky 1842 — a campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig powers
The Flame Keepers Blueprint — Patent Archive of the Pocket Lighter captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders
the lithographer's hand steadied by the civic obligation to render a martyred president with the dignity the wound itself denied him
Bird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi
Battle of Mexico 1847 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Major General Zachary Taylor 1847Battle of Mexico 1847 a campaign engraving from Scott's march on the capital, all bayonet smoke and lithographer's flourish, rendered in the season when Manifest Destiny had grown confident enough to mistake conquest for inheritance. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz