William R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852 old alaska map did the work of armies

did the work of armies

Spanish American Soldiers and Flags 1898 — a martial tableau from the year empire announced itself in Cuban heat and Manila harbor

1841 — a Senate portrait of the Kentuckian whose name would later attach itself to the last great compromise before the war

Commemorate the Services of Irish American Valor Loyalty and Devotion 1891 — a chromolithograph in the post-war key of remembrance

William R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852 old alaska map did the work of armiesWilliam R. King, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1852. A campaign portrait of the Alabama senator yoked to Franklin Pierce on a ticket that bet the Union on compromise King would win the office and die before he could meaningfully hold it, his lithographed dignity outlasting his lungs. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,