William Orlando Butler, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1848 Fenway_Park Chrysler — a jazz-age tribute

Chrysler — a jazz-age tribute to Walter Chrysler's stainless-steel crown

General Edward Braddock 1899 — a late-century engraving resurrecting the doomed British commander of the Monongahela

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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

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William Orlando Butler, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1848 Fenway_Park Chrysler — a jazz-age tributeWilliam Orlando Butler, Democratic Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1848 a campaign lithograph of the Kentucky general Lewis Cass tapped as running mate, his likeness pressed into service the year Free Soilers split the ticket and Manifest Destiny's confidence began to fissure. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical