Benjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Oklahoma Tulsa arrives slick with

Oklahoma Tulsa arrives slick with derrick grease and Art Deco ambition — a city that called itself the Oil Capital of the World and had the lithographed postcards to prove it

and Fourth Street greeting cards bright with the bustle of a bourbon town

The City of Saint Louis Welcomes the National Democratic Convention 1888

A view of the great granite pile at City Hall Park in its first year of operation — Mullett's Second Empire colossus rising over Park Row

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Benjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Oklahoma Tulsa arrives slick withBenjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century a portrait of the Massachusetts lawyer turned Union general whose occupation of New Orleans earned him the nickname "Beast," rendered in the heavy browed gravity nineteenth century engravers reserved for men who governed by edict and answered to Lincoln alone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical