George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 coach_print A civic broadside from the

A civic broadside from the summer Cleveland was renominated on the banks of the Mississippi — Saint Louis dressed in bunting and self-regard

had been worn into a kind of national topography by grief

The iconography is unembarrassed — eagle

The Iron Sentinel of Southwest Pass — a screw-pile skeleton driven into the soft Mississippi delta where the river bleeds into the Gulf

George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 coach_print A civic broadside from theGeorge M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 a campaign era portrait of Polk's running mate, the Philadelphia lawyer whose tie breaking Senate vote would lower the tariff and whose name would be hung on a Texas town just shy of annexation. The lithograph carries the polished confidence of a Democrat riding Manifest Destiny straight into office. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the