James K. Polk Eleventh President of the United States 1846 Vintage_Atlantic A posthumous engraving of the

A posthumous engraving of the first president

tobacconists

parachute jumpers caught mid-descent over the Atlantic

decorating cozy nooks

James K. Polk Eleventh President of the United States 1846 Vintage_Atlantic A posthumous engraving of theJames K. Polk Eleventh President of the United States 1846. A campaign era portrait lithograph of the Tennessee Democrat at the high tide of his ambitions the year he provoked war with Mexico and stared down Britain over Oregon, expansion rendered in the sober line of a presidency that promised one term and meant it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,