President Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 Size:24x36 Delaware Wilmington sits where the

Delaware Wilmington sits where the Brandywine meets the Christina

studio gates and Grauman's forecourt traced in the same hand that mailed dreams east at two cents a stamp

smoke streaming sideways as the mail car barrels through the night

as if he knew the whole vessel of a sailor's night depended on inches

President Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 Size:24x36 Delaware Wilmington sits where thePresident Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 a presidential portrait from the year the Compromise seated him in office and pulled the last federal troops from the South, the long shadow of the war still falling across every official likeness of the Republic's nineteenth president. 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