Major General Zachary Taylor 1848 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and the portrait carries that

and the portrait carries that double weight — a forty-eighter in a federal uniform

Grand National Republican Banner: Free Labor

The Sunken Chamber Baltimore Caisson Engineering Blueprint charts the strange architecture of a lighthouse built from the seabed up — a pneumatic iron cylinder sunk into Chesapeake mud

this is the founding document of the United States — the words Jefferson wrote

the country outside it

Major General Zachary Taylor 1848 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and the portrait carries thatMajor General Zachary Taylor 1848 the hero of Buena Vista rendered in his Mexican War epaulets the same year the Whigs would draft him for the presidency, a campaign portrait trading on gunpowder credentials and the Manifest Destiny swagger of a republic that had just swallowed half a continent. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical