The Speech That Won the Nomination at the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, 1896 Size:24x36 The scene carries the bravado

The scene carries the bravado of a wartime recruiting plate

The boy soldier of Chickamauga rendered in the year of his fame — barely twelve

and the slow tidewater glamour of the Battle House

A Gilded Age trophy hauled across the Atlantic by Vanderbilt money

The Speech That Won the Nomination at the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, 1896 Size:24x36 The scene carries the bravadoThe Speech That Won the Nomination at the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, 1896 preserves the thunderclap that vaulted William Jennings Bryan onto the Democratic ticket the Cross of Gold oration set in cold type, silver populism rendered as a campaign relic for the faithful. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,