Great Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 Atlantic_City_NJ his abolitionist candidacy quietly siphoning

his abolitionist candidacy quietly siphoning votes from Henry Clay and tilting the White House toward Polk

February 4th

when the Republic had begun the slow

its plates of rating badges

Battle of Shiloh 1888 — a commemorative rendering issued a generation after the Tennessee bloodletting

Great Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 Atlantic_City_NJ his abolitionist candidacy quietly siphoningGreat Fair on a Grand Scale 1894 a chromolithograph broadside trumpeting the kind of late century exposition where electric light, ribboned livestock, and civic boosterism shared a single fairground. Its typography swells with the ornamented confidence of an America convinced that bigness itself was a virtue worth advertising. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National