Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Celestial Machinery Planetary Orbits

The Celestial Machinery Planetary Orbits of the Solar System charts the great clockwork in concentric rings

1910 — a signed presidential portrait inscribed in the easy hand of the Republic's heaviest executive

his uniform still the country's surest argument

and any space drawn to the strange beauty of Victorian science

Taylor's Victories on the Rio Grande 1846 — a campaign lithograph trumpeting Zachary Taylor's opening triumphs at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma

Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Celestial Machinery Planetary OrbitsUlysses S. Grant, 19th Century. A portrait of the general who became president, rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men who had seen Shiloh and the Wilderness the quiet weight of a soldier asked to govern the country he had only just finished holding together. 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