Gen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880 xmas tree rustic art the orbits drawn with the

the orbits drawn with the gravity of scripture

The scene reads like a society column rendered in silver gelatin

The lithograph carries all the senatorial bearing of a man who had argued the territories from the floor and lost the argument anyway

before the long war made his face the most photographed in the republic

Gen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880 xmas tree rustic art the orbits drawn with theGen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880. A campaign portrait of the Customs House collector turned running mate to Garfield the side whiskered machine politician rendered in respectable lithographic gravity, half a year before an assassin's bullet would promote him into the office no one expected him to hold. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the