William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 vintage tobacco art The National Platform of the

The National Platform of the Republican Party and Its Candidate for President U

his bones carried ashore as the republic that outlived him sent its own sons into the trenches of France

An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument

Alexander Anderson

The face is grave

William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 vintage tobacco art The National Platform of theWilliam Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 a mourning portrait issued in the strange hush after thirty one days in office, the Whig general felled by pneumonia before the ink on his inaugural had properly dried. The word Late does the heavy lifting here, transmuting a campaign likeness into elegy. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National