William A. Graham, Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1852 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Chesapeake skipjacks

Chesapeake skipjacks

his likeness pressed back into civic service when the Republic needed its founding griefs to steady a generation marching toward Belleau Wood

Susan Boardman Goodwin Dewey at Home — the hero of Manila Bay photographed in the domestic register

Benjamin Franklin 1842-1852 — a mid-century lithograph cast in the long memory of the republic

The lithograph holds him as the country preferred to remember him: stoic

William A. Graham, Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1852 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Chesapeake skipjacksWilliam A. Graham, Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1852. A campaign portrait from the Whigs' last gasp Graham yoked to Winfield Scott on a ticket the party would not survive, the lithographer's careful shading lending dignity to a coalition already fracturing over slavery's westward creep. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,