General Benjamin F. Butler, Candidate of the People's Party for President of the United States 1884 Framed_Geological The Men of the Hour

The Men of the Hour 1919 gathers the architects of the postwar settlement in the brittle afterglow of the Armistice — a group portrait of statesmen and commanders posed with the unwelcome gravity of a republic that had crossed an ocean to bury its dead

Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels

caught in the fevered hours of a solar maximum

Whether taken before Appomattox or after

Tennessee runs from the blue folds of the Smokies to the Mississippi bluffs at Memphis

General Benjamin F. Butler, Candidate of the People's Party for President of the United States 1884 Framed_Geological The Men of the HourGeneral Benjamin F. Butler, Candidate of the People's Party for President of the United States 1884. A campaign portrait of the Massachusetts firebrand running on the Greenback Labor ticket, his jowled scowl rendered with the earnestness of a lithographer convinced this third party gambit might actually unsettle the Cleveland Blaine duel. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,