Gen James A Garfield 20th President of the United States 1881 vintage barber rendered here in the brass-and-braid

rendered here in the brass-and-braid formality of a war's final year — a portrait of a man the Union both promoted and forgave

the old general of Tippecanoe sits for posterity — a Whig hero rendered in the confident line of a country still convinced its westward appetite was destiny

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its lantern room perched eighty-nine feet above the surge

when the house itself had become a relic of the republic he engineered

Gen James A Garfield 20th President of the United States 1881 vintage barber rendered here in the brass-and-braidGen James A Garfield 20th President of the United States 1881. A campaign era portrait of the Ohio general turned chief executive, issued in the year a bullet at a Washington railway station would cut his presidency to mere months the lithograph carries the steady gaze of a man the country had only just begun to read. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National