William H. Taft 19th Century Framed_new_Orleans and the great pre-war years

and the great pre-war years

fresh from reducing Fort Pulaski with rifled artillery and proving that masonry

mid-quarrel with Mexico

where the weight of Antietam and Gettysburg seems already inscribed

The smallest state sent its biggest views by mail: clam shacks

William H. Taft 19th Century Framed_new_Orleans and the great pre-war yearsWilliam H. Taft 19th Century a portrait of the future president as a younger man, before the White House and the Chief Justiceship, when Taft was still climbing the Ohio bench and the Gilded Age machinery of Republican patronage was quietly shaping a career that would touch every branch of American government. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,