William Henry Harrison of Ohio 1840 Size:18x24 Ink set down by the

Ink set down by the same hand that signed the Proclamation

his Tippecanoe laurels burnished into Whig iconography for the noisiest election the young republic had yet endured

A chromolithograph in love with its own engineering — Roebling's cathedral of cable and granite stitched across the river the year it opened

and the long Atlantic shoreline were printed in the postcard idiom of summer crowds

and eventually was

William Henry Harrison of Ohio 1840 Size:18x24 Ink set down by theWilliam Henry Harrison of Ohio 1840 a campaign portrait of the Whig general turned candidate, drafted in the year of log cabins and hard cider, when Harrison's Tippecanoe legend was repackaged into the first truly modern presidential pageant. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier &