Pictorial Souvenir of the Republic Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Texan senator rendered at

The Texan senator rendered at midcentury — hero of San Jacinto turned Washington orator

mission arcades cooling in adobe shadow

The lithograph carries the careful gravity of Gilded Age politics

here rendered in the Whig prime of his career

Pictorial Souvenir of the Republic Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Texan senator rendered atPictorial Souvenir of the Republic reads as a bound pageant of national memory a compendium engraving where the Republic's symbols, statesmen, and milestones are arranged with the reverent shorthand of a publisher convinced the American story could be told in plates. 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