Gen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880 framed eagle art and like all good astronomical

and like all good astronomical engravings of its age

A portrait of the Carolina senator whose defense of slavery on the Senate floor drew Charles Sumner's scalding rebuke — and Preston Brooks's cane in answer

It is a plate from the age when Leverrier could conjure Neptune from arithmetic alone

the People's Choice for Vice President 1868 — a campaign portrait of the Indiana Speaker hoisted onto Grant's ticket

the old sandstone dome still squat above a chamber where Clay

Gen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880 framed eagle art and like all good astronomicalGen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880. A campaign portrait of the Customs House collector turned running mate to Garfield the side whiskered machine politician rendered in respectable lithographic gravity, half a year before an assassin's bullet would promote him into the office no one expected him to hold. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the