General James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Geographical Historical and Statistical Chart

Geographical Historical and Statistical Chart of the United States of America 1835 — a Jacksonian-era reference engraving that flatters the young republic with columns of population figures

The portrait carries the weariness of a soldier turned statesman turned author

his name and regiment inked into the same ledger that had counted him toward Appomattox

1840 — a campaign lithograph that turns a 1811 frontier skirmish into Whig mythology

Mount Hood floating snow-bright on the horizon

General James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Geographical Historical and Statistical ChartGeneral James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847. A campaign portrait from the twilight of the Whig hour, when Irvin carried the party's banner against Francis Shunk in a Pennsylvania already restless with the Mexican War's spoils and the slavery question simmering beneath every stump speech. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,