Thomas Corwin, the People's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 Size:24x36 issued in the year Polk

issued in the year Polk would ride Manifest Destiny into office

totem poles weathered by Pacific rain

and rain-slick pavement glowing under the incandescent canopy that earned Forty-Second Street its luminous nickname

Ambrose Everett Burnside

Thomas Corwin, the People's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 Size:24x36 issued in the year PolkThomas Corwin, the People's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 a campaign portrait floated on the eve of the 1848 race, when the Ohio Whig's thunderous Senate speech against the Mexican War had made him either prophet or pariax, depending on which side of expansion you stood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical