George Washington 19th Century des moines art drafted as the party tried

drafted as the party tried to wrest itself back from Bryan's silver years and meet Roosevelt with the cool authority of the bench rather than the stump

before the burden

and a republic forced to read its own grief by gaslight

Printed for the Northern Democratic ticket in the year the party split in two

George Washington 19th Century des moines art drafted as the party triedGeorge Washington 19th Century. A posthumous engraving of the first president, rendered by a generation that knew him only through marble and myth the steady gaze and powdered hair drawn not from life but from the long civic project of remembering him. 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