Hon. Schuyler Colfax, the People's Choice for Vice President 1868 Geological_Print The print speaks the antebellum

The print speaks the antebellum dialect fluently — liberty rendered as harvest

1868 — a domestic lithograph staged in the year the general traded epaulets for the presidency

or a classroom

The Defenders of Our Union 19th Century assembles the Federal command in commemorative portraiture — Lincoln at the center of his generals

where every concentric ring hums with the conviction that God

Hon. Schuyler Colfax, the People's Choice for Vice President 1868 Geological_Print The print speaks the antebellumHon. Schuyler Colfax, the People's Choice for Vice President 1868 a campaign portrait of the Indiana Speaker hoisted onto Grant's ticket, printed in the brisk civic optimism of a republic still bandaging itself, before the Crdit Mobilier scandal would tarnish the smiling Hoosier's name. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,