The President and Mrs. Hayes, 19th Century Size:18x24 or a study built around

or a study built around a leather chair and a good pour

and IND as a circulatory system beneath the boroughs — every express line and local stop traced like vasculature on an anatomist's plate

the country outside it

all starched collar and inherited gravity

The Golden West 19th Century conjures the cartographer's romance of a continent still being inventoried — wagon-track and rail-line

The President and Mrs. Hayes, 19th Century Size:18x24 or a study built aroundThe President and Mrs. Hayes, 19th Century a paired portrait of Rutherford and Lucy from the uneasy aftermath of the contested 1876 election, rendered with the parlor decorum of a White House trying to look respectable again. Lemonade Lucy at his side, the republic catching its breath. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,