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and Franklin bent over the parchment

A Nation's Pride

the republic remembered as a single crowded room

1884 — a commemorative engraved portrait of the man whose rotary press hurled American newsprint into the industrial age

William Cabell Rives

General Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista 1847 framed_fresno_art and Franklin bent over theGeneral Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista 1847 renders Old Rough and Ready astride the Mexican highlands, where outnumbered American volunteers held Santa Anna's columns and turned a desperate February stand into the lithograph that would carry Zachary Taylor straight to the White House. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical