Hyrum Smith and Joseph Smith 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame already being measured for the

already being measured for the White House before the powder smoke had cleared from Buena Vista

The image carries the weight of Appomattox and the Executive Mansion alike

the kind of plate that once made Victorian astronomers feel they were reading God's own marginalia

The postcards lean into that Pacific Northwest weather: linen views of Seattle's hill-climbing streets

Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847

Hyrum Smith and Joseph Smith 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame already being measured for theHyrum Smith and Joseph Smith, 19th Century paired portraits of the Mormon prophet and his elder brother, rendered in the sober lithographic style reserved for martyrs, their likenesses fixed not long before the Carthage jail made saints of them in the eyes of a young, restless faith. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,