World Series Boston Americans Government Art A campaign portrait of the

A campaign portrait of the Customs House collector turned running mate to Garfield — the side-whiskered machine politician rendered in respectable lithographic gravity

every line of the portrait carrying the brass and bluster of a man who believed the strenuous life was a national posture as much as a personal creed

equal parts populist saint and Bank-slayer

President of Harvard University and Late Mayor of Boston

Manifest Destiny rendered as street-fight

World Series Boston Americans Government Art A campaign portrait of theWorld Series Boston Americans B9d3 a relic from the inaugural Fall Classic of 1903, when the Boston Americans bested Pittsburgh in a best of nine that christened the modern World Series. The lithographed plate carries the dignified weight of dead ball baseball, an era of flannel jerseys, handlebar mustaches, and Cy Young still throwing for keeps. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark