General Benjamin F. Butler, Candidate of the People's Party for President of the United States 1884 large indiana map These postcards hold the original

These postcards hold the original Mardi Gras town in lithographed bloom: cast-iron balconies

Washington's institute

rendered here in the ink-and-shadow vocabulary of a nation cataloguing its own grief and resolve

The Gentlemans Vanity Patent for the Perfected Whisker reads as a study in restraint — the close

more than any other

General Benjamin F. Butler, Candidate of the People's Party for President of the United States 1884 large indiana map These postcards hold the originalGeneral Benjamin F. Butler, Candidate of the People's Party for President of the United States 1884. A campaign portrait of the Massachusetts firebrand running on the Greenback Labor ticket, his jowled scowl rendered with the earnestness of a lithographer convinced this third party gambit might actually unsettle the Cleveland Blaine duel. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,