Brig General George W Morgan 1862 San_Francisco_framed Taft 19th Century — a

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

July 4th 1776–1876 — a Centennial engraving that gathers fifty-six faces and their inked hands into one civic constellation

The image carries the careful dignity of a man who would rather be Chief Justice than President

The Sickenberger Device Patent for the Gentlemans Vice is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

Ohio arrives in lithographed views of canal towns and courthouse domes

Brig General George W Morgan 1862 San_Francisco_framed Taft 19th Century — aBrig General George W Morgan 1862 the Ohio lawyer soldier in regulation tunic and brigadier's stars, photographed in the year he would seize Cumberland Gap for the Union before the long, bitter retreat through Kentucky's hills toward the Ohio. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier &