Benjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The City of Saint Louis

The City of Saint Louis Welcomes the National Democratic Convention 1888

and Fourth Street greeting cards bright with the bustle of a bourbon town

A view of the great granite pile at City Hall Park in its first year of operation — Mullett's Second Empire colossus rising over Park Row

A lithograph of the Little Bighorn rendered in the romantic register the nation preferred — Custer upright amid the swirl

rendered with the swagger of a man who carried San Juan Hill into the Oval Office and treated the presidency itself as a kind of expedition

Benjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The City of Saint LouisBenjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century a portrait of the Massachusetts lawyer turned Union general whose occupation of New Orleans earned him the nickname "Beast," rendered in the heavy browed gravity nineteenth century engravers reserved for men who governed by edict and answered to Lincoln alone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical