Millard Fillmore Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1848 Size:18x24 The Gilded Balconies of Mott

The Gilded Balconies of Mott Street looks down the spine of Chinatown's busiest artery

the architecture of Reconstruction itself

The Barbers Machine Patent Blueprint of the Electric Clipper reads as a study in restraint — the close

the city rendered not by skyline but by the tunnels that made it move

The portrait belongs to the long Reconstruction afterglow

Millard Fillmore Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1848 Size:18x24 The Gilded Balconies of MottMillard Fillmore Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1848 a campaign lithograph rendered in the cautious dignity the Whigs preferred, presenting the Buffalo lawyer as Zachary Taylor's running mate in the season when the Mexican War's spoils had begun to fracture every party that touched them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,