General Andrew Jackson, the Hero, the Sage and the Patriot 1845 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A campaign portrait of the

A campaign portrait of the prairie lawyer on the eve of his improbable election — issued by the young Republican coalition as the Union itself began to fray

His Excellency Elbridge Gerry LLD Governour of Massachusetts 1811

Burning of the Library of Congress 1892 — a press engraving of the night flame found the nation's bookshelves

Idaho Boise rises where the Oregon Trail bent toward the Boise River and the foothills tipped gold in late summer — a capital town of sandstone statehouse

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General Andrew Jackson, the Hero, the Sage and the Patriot 1845 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A campaign portrait of theGeneral Andrew Jackson, the Hero, the Sage and the Patriot 1845 a posthumous lithograph canonizing Old Hickory in the year of his death, the triple epithet doing the work of myth before the grave at the Hermitage had even settled. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz &