Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century Aztec_Stadium_Poster Polk Eleventh President of the

Polk Eleventh President of the United States 1846

and hung upon a parlor wall

39342 is a snapshot of an industry that prized precision over poetry — the apparatus of bonded warehouses

when the hero of Little Round Top was still fighting — posthumously — to clear his name from the cloud of Five Forks

Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century Aztec_Stadium_Poster Polk Eleventh President of theDeath Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century a mournful tableau of Buffalo's first Catholic bishop in his final hour, drawn in the devotional idiom of the period when American Catholicism was still proving its civic legitimacy. The lithograph reads as both deathbed portrait and quiet argument for sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,