Hon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Sun's Violent Breath 1892

The Sun's Violent Breath 1892 Solar Prominence Study renders the spectroscopist's terrifying glimpse — those tongues of incandescent hydrogen leaping a hundred thousand miles from the limb

Sand Island Light Station Blueprint the Keepers Vigil reads like a draftsman's quiet meditation on isolation — a brick tower rising 132 feet from a shoal in Mobile Bay

already reaching past vengeance toward a reconciliation he would not live to see

marble cornices catching the afternoon light

decades before Appomattox would rewrite his name

Hon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Sun's Violent Breath 1892Hon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856. A campaign portrait of the Pennsylvania doughface on the eve of his victory over Frmont and Fillmore, printed in that brittle season when the Union still pretended compromise might hold and Kansas was already bleeding into the headlines. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional