James Buchanan 1849 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Colossus and the Silver

The Colossus and the Silver Leviathan: Liberty's Vigil at the Golden Door stages an improbable rendezvous in the harbor — Bartholdi's torchbearer holding her ground as a dirigible drifts past her crown

William Cabell Rives

Taft 19th Century — a portrait of the future president as a younger man

The Bloodletters Beacon — Koken Patent Blueprint captures the working geometry of the Victorian barber's trade — the angles

and gastronomic boast

James Buchanan 1849 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Colossus and the SilverJames Buchanan 1849 a portrait of the Pennsylvania statesman in his Polk administration prime, rendered when he was Secretary of State and the country was busy swallowing the spoils of the Mexican War. The face here is not yet the one history would blame; it is the diplomat's, still confident in compromise. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional