The Defenders of Faith of the Catholic Church and of the United States 1878 framed barber chair Thaddeus Stevens 1838

Thaddeus Stevens 1838

issued in the Tyler interregnum when the Whig coalition was fracturing and the office itself still felt like an experiment with eight surviving variations

Grant 1877 — the general turned president rendered in the twilight of his second term

19th Century — a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography

Tuskegee University

The Defenders of Faith of the Catholic Church and of the United States 1878 framed barber chair Thaddeus Stevens 1838The Defenders of Faith of the Catholic Church and of the United States 1878 a chromolithograph that twins ecclesiastical heraldry with civic loyalty, arranging pontiffs and presidents into a single devotional grid for the immigrant parlors of a republic still negotiating its post war soul. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical