James K. Polk, Eleventh President of the United States, 1845-1849 old Ontario map American Centennial Progress 1875 arrives

American Centennial Progress 1875 arrives a year ahead of the Philadelphia Exposition

A press photograph from the opening weeks of the Peninsula Campaign

The Barbers Shroud Patent Drawing of 1897 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

Representative From New York

James K. Polk, Eleventh President of the United States, 1845-1849 old Ontario map American Centennial Progress 1875 arrivesJames K. Polk, Eleventh President of the United States, 1845 1849 a campaign era portrait of the Tennessee dark horse who promised one term and delivered a continent, his sober likeness fixed at the moment Manifest Destiny found its most efficient executor. 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