James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The lithograph reads less as

The lithograph reads less as reportage than as prophecy

Gothic Spire Among Giants: Trinity Church in the Shadow of Progress — a Wall Street tableau in which Richard Upjohn's brownstone steeple

when his thunderous senatorial cadence was already being fitted for marble

the unwelcome grammar of a republic learning to speak in millions

James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The lithograph reads less asJames Knox Polk President of the United States 1845. The dark eyed Tennessean rendered in the year of his inauguration, jaw set for a single term of acquisition Texas annexed, Oregon negotiated, war with Mexico already gathering on the horizon. A campaign portrait of Manifest Destiny in human form. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional