William A. Graham, Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1852 Frame Style:Ebony Frame drawn in the last century

drawn in the last century that still believed the heavens could be cradled in brass

Chesapeake skipjacks

when Pasadena rose gardens and Hollywood Boulevard marquees were still the stuff of mailed wonder

Benjamin Franklin 1842-1852 — a mid-century lithograph cast in the long memory of the republic

William A. Graham, Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1852 Frame Style:Ebony Frame drawn in the last centuryWilliam A. Graham, Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1852. A campaign portrait from the Whigs' last gasp Graham yoked to Winfield Scott on a ticket the party would not survive, the lithographer's careful shading lending dignity to a coalition already fracturing over slavery's westward creep. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,