James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap rendered long after his pistol

rendered long after his pistol duel at Weehawken

the unwelcome grammar of a republic learning to speak in millions

black borders and elegiac type doing the slow civic work of remembrance

Gothic Spire Among Giants: Trinity Church in the Shadow of Progress — a Wall Street tableau in which Richard Upjohn's brownstone steeple

James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap rendered long after his pistolJames Knox Polk President of the United States 1845. The dark eyed Tennessean rendered in the year of his inauguration, jaw set for a single term of acquisition Texas annexed, Oregon negotiated, war with Mexico already gathering on the horizon. A campaign portrait of Manifest Destiny in human form. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional