The Speech That Won the Nomination at the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, 1896 Size:24x36 The Merchants Ledger Patent No

The Merchants Ledger Patent No 214588 is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

where steamship manifests and chalked coat-lapels became the first ledger of a new American century

issued the year of his death

The boy soldier of Chickamauga rendered in the year of his fame — barely twelve

The Speech That Won the Nomination at the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, 1896 Size:24x36 The Merchants Ledger Patent NoThe Speech That Won the Nomination at the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, 1896 preserves the thunderclap that vaulted William Jennings Bryan onto the Democratic ticket the Cross of Gold oration set in cold type, silver populism rendered as a campaign relic for the faithful. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,