Winfield Scott, Whig Candidate for Fourteenth President of the United States, 1852 Size:18x24 an Independence Day christening of

an Independence Day christening of steel and ambition that announced the river city's resurrection nine years after Appomattox

1892–1893

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when Harrison's Tippecanoe legend was repackaged into the first truly modern presidential pageant

here flanked by Frances and the children whose births and christenings the nation followed with unseemly appetite

Winfield Scott, Whig Candidate for Fourteenth President of the United States, 1852 Size:18x24 an Independence Day christening ofWinfield Scott, Whig Candidate for Fourteenth President of the United States, 1852. The general of Veracruz rendered as candidate a campaign portrait floated by a Whig party already cracking along its sectional seams, hero worship pressed into lithograph just months before the ticket's collapse and the party's own dissolution. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National