For Governor Elliot Danforth 1898 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the brass of his epaulets

the brass of his epaulets rendered with the deliberate flattery of antebellum portraiture

Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive — the Library of Congress

General Grant and His Family 1868 — a domestic portrait of the Union's foremost soldier in the year he traded the field for the ballot

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The Barbers Instrument Patent Tools of Precise Vanity comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

For Governor Elliot Danforth 1898 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the brass of his epauletsFor Governor Elliot Danforth 1898 a campaign portrait from the New York gubernatorial contest, when Danforth carried the Democratic banner against Theodore Roosevelt a race lost by a narrow margin, but waged in the brassy idiom of late century machine politics, all sash and slogan and stiff collared resolve. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional