William Henry Harrison of Ohio 1840 Size:18x24 its iron cylinder sunk into

its iron cylinder sunk into Patapsco mud and crowned with a keeper's quarters built to outlast every nor'easter the bay could throw at it

his burin tracing the quiet revolution by which American books finally learned to illustrate themselves

A campaign portrait of the Indiana senator and grandson of Tippecanoe

his Tippecanoe laurels burnished into Whig iconography for the noisiest election the young republic had yet endured

The Waxing Crescent Smith's Celestial Observations is selenography in its most devotional register — a slender sickle of moon caught at the threshold of becoming

William Henry Harrison of Ohio 1840 Size:18x24 its iron cylinder sunk intoWilliam Henry Harrison of Ohio 1840 a campaign portrait of the Whig general turned candidate, drafted in the year of log cabins and hard cider, when Harrison's Tippecanoe legend was repackaged into the first truly modern presidential pageant. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier &