Benjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered with the swagger of

rendered with the swagger of a man who carried San Juan Hill into the Oval Office and treated the presidency itself as a kind of expedition

A lithograph of the Little Bighorn rendered in the romantic register the nation preferred — Custer upright amid the swirl

and Fourth Street greeting cards bright with the bustle of a bourbon town

The Grand Marquee: Radio City's Luminous Throng — a nocturne of Sixth Avenue at its most theatrical

A view of the great granite pile at City Hall Park in its first year of operation — Mullett's Second Empire colossus rising over Park Row

Benjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered with the swagger ofBenjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century a portrait of the Massachusetts lawyer turned Union general whose occupation of New Orleans earned him the nickname "Beast," rendered in the heavy browed gravity nineteenth century engravers reserved for men who governed by edict and answered to Lincoln alone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical