Ladies of the White House 1898 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the country listening for the

the country listening for the war John Brown swore was coming

with the keeper's hexagonal cottage perched mid-air like a lantern in a cage

The portraitist's hand is steady

and period broadsides — the press photographers

the first long inhale

Ladies of the White House 1898 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the country listening for theLadies of the White House 1898 assembles the First Ladies in a single chromolithographic gallery, a parlor piece of civic remembrance issued at the close of the century Martha Washington to Frances Cleveland, arranged like cameos in the long corridor of the executive household. 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