Chauncey Mitchell Depew 1888 Size:18x24 The Gentlemans Vanity Patent for

The Gentlemans Vanity Patent for the Perfected Whisker reads as a study in restraint — the close

Washington

from the Virginian who refused a crown to the New Yorker who signed the Compromise

President Lincoln and Secretary Seward Signing the Proclamation of Freedom

undone by the same appetites his pleasure palace was built to serve

Chauncey Mitchell Depew 1888 Size:18x24 The Gentlemans Vanity Patent forChauncey Mitchell Depew 1888 the railroad attorney turned silver tongued statesman caught in the year he made his quixotic bid for the Republican nomination, a portrait of the New York Central's chief orator at the height of his Gilded Age influence. 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 publishers