General James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the President struck down at

the President struck down at its threshold

rendered in the muscular optimism of a republic stitching itself back together one rail tie and postal route at a time

A linen-era city stitched together by irrigation canals and the slow

and an American republic discovers it has the appetite of an empire

and naval engagements as they happened

General James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the President struck down atGeneral James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847. A campaign portrait from the twilight of the Whig hour, when Irvin carried the party's banner against Francis Shunk in a Pennsylvania already restless with the Mexican War's spoils and the slavery question simmering beneath every stump speech. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,