Millard Fillmore 1851-1853 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap pressed into the country's bloodiest

pressed into the country's bloodiest decade

devoted stars that orbit one another across unfathomable distance

the whole troubled procession of expansion and equivocation rendered in respectful parlor portraiture

Old Bullion himself

dating itself to the year a president was shot in a Washington train station and the long postwar arithmetic of remembrance was still being tallied

Millard Fillmore 1851-1853 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap pressed into the country's bloodiestMillard Fillmore 18511853 a portrait of the accidental president whose signature on the Fugitive Slave Act bought the Union a few more uneasy years. The likeness carries that peculiar Whig stillness, the composed face of a man presiding over a compromise already cracking beneath him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,