John Caldwell Calhoun 1852 Tacoma_Canvas The image looks backward with

The image looks backward with reverence

A campaign-era portrait of the Ohio general turned chief executive

his bones carried ashore as the republic that outlived him sent its own sons into the trenches of France

19th Century — a composite gallery of executive likenesses

the Equitable Building's early skyline

John Caldwell Calhoun 1852 Tacoma_Canvas The image looks backward withJohn Caldwell Calhoun 1852 a posthumous portrait of South Carolina's gaunt prophet of nullification, his hollow gaze fixed past the viewer toward a Union he spent his life threatening to dissolve. Issued two years after his death, the lithograph carries the unsettled hush of a republic still arguing with his ghost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,