William Cabell Rives, Senator From Virginia, 1839 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Bronze Sentinel of Fifth

The Bronze Sentinel of Fifth Avenue casts one of the avenue's gilded guardians in the patient gravity of weathered metal — a statue keeping its long watch over the carriage trade

when the question of whether a republic could legislate thirst was still very much open

Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait minted in the afterglow of Buena Vista

where every block hums with the double pulse of ticker tape and tenement breath

The image carries the weight of a country tearing itself toward something it could not yet name

William Cabell Rives, Senator From Virginia, 1839 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Bronze Sentinel of FifthWilliam Cabell Rives, Senator From Virginia, 1839 a Senate era portrait of the Virginian Whig who broke with Van Buren over the Independent Treasury, rendered in the dignified engraver's hand reserved for men who measured their words against Jefferson's shadow and the gathering storm over the banks. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional