William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 vintage tobacco art McKinley at the helm and

McKinley at the helm and Hobart at his shoulder as the country eased toward an empire it had not yet named

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and Aquila wheeling across the firmament in inked latitudes

his bones carried ashore as the republic that outlived him sent its own sons into the trenches of France

William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 vintage tobacco art McKinley at the helm andWilliam Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 a mourning portrait issued in the strange hush after thirty one days in office, the Whig general felled by pneumonia before the ink on his inaugural had properly dried. The word Late does the heavy lifting here, transmuting a campaign likeness into elegy. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National