Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap General George Brinton McClellan and

General George Brinton McClellan and Staff Before Yorktown

A campaign portrait of the Customs House collector turned running mate to Garfield — the side-whiskered machine politician rendered in respectable lithographic gravity

Stephen Grover Cleveland 1884 — a campaign portrait from the year the Buffalo reformer broke a quarter-century of Republican rule

drawn for a city still learning that industry's promise carried its own concussive bill

Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap General George Brinton McClellan andLieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century a portrait of the Union's quiet butcher, rendered with the three stars he wore as the first lieutenant general since Washington. The likeness carries the weight of a man who fought by arithmetic, willing to spend what the ledger demanded to end the war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical