Chester Alan Arthur 1881 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the steady gaze of

and the steady gaze of an officer who had outlived the War of 1812 to become its living monument

the gold-domed Capitol presiding over a railroad town rebuilt from ash

Eighth Avenue

Lee at the center

his likeness committed to plate while the Union ledger still ran red

Chester Alan Arthur 1881 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the steady gaze ofChester Alan Arthur 1881 a presidential portrait of the unlikely gentleman from New York, elevated from the Custom House to the White House by Garfield's assassin's bullet. The lithograph carries the full whiskered dignity of the Gilded Age executive, a man who reformed the spoils system that made him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional