The reverence here is brassy
where the firmament thins and the sun itself becomes just another star
Brigadier General Franz Sigel
fixing the martyred president in the public eye just as the war's last embers cooled
The cards trade in boardwalk spectacle — Nathan's frankfurter stands
Hamilton Fish, Representative From New York, 1844 Size:18x24 The reverence here is brassyHamilton Fish, Representative From New York, 1844 a Whig portrait from the year Polk's expansionists swept the field, capturing the young Knickerbocker congressman before the long arc that would carry him to Albany, the Senate, and Grant's State Department. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic