James G. Birney 1844 Size:18x24 ledgered in the ornamental confidence

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

and ranch gates standing sentinel against a horizon that refuses to end

its prominences and sunspots cataloged with the feverish devotion of an age that watched Venus cross the solar disc and called it scripture

Abraham Lincoln Bust Portrait Without Beard

James G. Birney 1844 Size:18x24 ledgered in the ornamental confidenceJames G. Birney 1844 the Liberty Party's standard bearer rendered in the sober campaign portrait register of a third party crusade, his abolitionist candidacy quietly siphoning votes from Henry Clay and tilting the White House toward Polk. A small print, an outsized consequence in the slow burning argument over slavery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National