George Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch Framed Subway Art Democratic Candidate for Vice President

Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States

drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base

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George Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch Framed Subway Art Democratic Candidate for Vice PresidentGeorge Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch a literary engraving drawn from Cooper's The Spy, pairing the General with the peddler informant who walked the neutral ground of Westchester. The plate trades in the quieter mythology of the Revolution: the war won as much by whispered intelligence as by powder. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional