Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Size:24x18 issued the same season Blaine

issued the same season Blaine chased the presidency and lost it by a whisper — the engraving carries all the burnished gravity a Gilded Age publisher could muster for a man already half-mythologized

and the unshakable human desire to soar

narrating the Ohio canal boy's ascent to the White House in panels arranged like stations of a civic passion play

Douglas Stanton Hospitals Washington DC 1864 — a documentary view of the wartime capital's converted wards

1860 — a campaign portrait of the Little Giant in the year his party split beneath him

Capitol of Michigan, Lansing — 19th Century Size:24x18 issued the same season BlaineCapitol of Michigan, Lansing 19th Century. A documentary engraving of the statehouse rising from the cleared pine country of central Michigan, its dome and pediments rendered with the civic seriousness of a young capital announcing that frontier timber towns could, in time, govern themselves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical