James Madison 1897 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame 1901 — a commemorative grouping

1901 — a commemorative grouping of the three martyred presidents

Born Jan 24 1825

here rendered in the Whig prime of his career

and the smaller regional houses that documented every Main Street

and the slow drawl of a Southern crossroads

James Madison 1897 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame 1901 — a commemorative groupingJames Madison 1897 a late century commemorative likeness of the fourth president, issued long after his death, when the Gilded Age had a habit of resurrecting Founders to anchor a republic uncertain of its own continuity. Madison's spectacled gravity, reprinted for a generation that had survived its civil war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,