George Washington 19th Century des moines art A campaign portrait of the

A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig ascendancy

1896 preserves the thunderclap that vaulted William Jennings Bryan onto the Democratic ticket — the Cross of Gold oration set in cold type

The Brewers Contraption Oppls Rolling Vessel of Spirits captures the distiller's craft at its most exacting — every valve

military scenes

drafted as the party tried to wrest itself back from Bryan's silver years and meet Roosevelt with the cool authority of the bench rather than the stump

George Washington 19th Century des moines art A campaign portrait of theGeorge Washington 19th Century. A posthumous engraving of the first president, rendered by a generation that knew him only through marble and myth the steady gaze and powdered hair drawn not from life but from the long civic project of remembering him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers