Honorable Hannibal Hamlin, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1860 Sacramento_canvas transmuting a campaign likeness into

transmuting a campaign likeness into elegy

19th Century — an engraving pairing Bartholdi's couchant Lion of Belfort with the steady gaze of the man himself

Heading a Stampede 1888 — a cattle-country scene rendered with the urgency of men who had ridden it

and edges that turned a daily chore into a small civic ceremony

John Brown 19th Century — the abolitionist rendered with the severe gaze of a man already convinced that the republic's sin would only be answered in blood

Honorable Hannibal Hamlin, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1860 Sacramento_canvas transmuting a campaign likeness intoHonorable Hannibal Hamlin, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1860. A campaign portrait of the Maine senator hoisted onto Lincoln's ticket the steady New England face the new Republican party offered the country in the season before secession turned ballots into battlefields. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional