Jefferson Davis and Family Size:36x24 John Tyler Tenth President of

John Tyler Tenth President of the United States 1835-1856 — a campaign-era portrait of the Virginian who inherited the office on Harrison's death and spent his single term feuding with his own Whigs

The composition treats McPherson's death as the war wanted to be remembered: deliberate

The Barbers Invention Patent Drawing of the Hair Cutters Comb captures the working geometry of the Victorian barber's trade — the angles

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Jefferson Davis and Family Size:36x24 John Tyler Tenth President ofJefferson Davis and Family the Confederate president rendered not in martial pose but in the domestic frame, surrounded by the wife and children whose fortunes were bound to a rebellion already collapsing. A portrait that softens the architect of secession into a father, as if the household could absolve the cause. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,