Millard Fillmore Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1848 boulderer_artwork and rose gardens spilling across

and rose gardens spilling across Washington Park — a city of lumber barons and rain-slick streetcars cataloged in linen and real-photo postcards from the rail-and-roses era

Shall Remain Free

Alexander Hamilton 1896 — a Gilded Age portrait reaching backward across a century to claim the architect of the Treasury as patron saint of American finance

The likeness is rendered in the sober line-work of an era that knew it was watching history happen

The Texan senator rendered at midcentury — hero of San Jacinto turned Washington orator

Millard Fillmore Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1848 boulderer_artwork and rose gardens spilling acrossMillard Fillmore Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1848 a campaign lithograph rendered in the cautious dignity the Whigs preferred, presenting the Buffalo lawyer as Zachary Taylor's running mate in the season when the Mexican War's spoils had begun to fracture every party that touched them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,