General Taylor and His Staff on the Morning Before the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame when the country was still

when the country was still tallying what it had survived and what it had made of itself

A naval portrait of Old Ironsides' last great captain

issued thirteen years after his death and circulated as the country was already pivoting toward a new war

The face here is the one the country was learning to read for weather

regional broadsides

General Taylor and His Staff on the Morning Before the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame when the country was stillGeneral Taylor and His Staff on the Morning Before the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847 a campaign lithograph rendered in the quiet hour before Santa Anna's columns appeared in the pass, with Old Rough and Ready sketched mid council among his officers, the future presidency already gathering at his shoulder like Mexican dust. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National