James Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States 1857 Size:24x36 Hayes 1877 — a presidential

Hayes 1877 — a presidential portrait from the year the Compromise seated him in office and pulled the last federal troops from the South

when every brewmaster had a patent attorney on retainer and a draftsman down the hall

An astronomical lithograph from the age when the ephemeris was scripture and the morning star a doctrine unto itself

Boathouse Row strung along the Schuylkill

Issued two years after his death

James Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States 1857 Size:24x36 Hayes 1877 — a presidentialJames Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States 1857 a campaign era portrait of the Pennsylvania bachelor who inherited a Union already cracking, his stoic likeness fixed in the very year Dred Scott detonated through the Court and the country leaned hard toward its reckoning. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,