Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, 1881 large jamaica map the hero of the Asiatic

the hero of the Asiatic Squadron sits for posterity in full naval braid — the steady-eyed portrait of an officer who turned a single dawn engagement into the founding myth of American sea power

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The Barbers Apron Patent a Study in American Utility reads as a study in restraint — the close

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Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, 1881 large jamaica map the hero of the AsiaticChester A. Arthur, President of the United States, 1881 a presidential portrait of the New York customs man elevated by Garfield's bullet, rendered with the formal gravity owed to a Gilded Age executive who inherited the office in mourning and surprised the republic by governing better than it expected. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional