Hyrum Smith and Joseph Smith 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Nebraska arrives by way of

Nebraska arrives by way of the Platte and the sandhills — large-letter greetings stuffed with cornfields and capitol towers

The image carries the weight of Appomattox and the Executive Mansion alike

and shipped from the United States — never mass-produced overseas

already being measured for the White House before the powder smoke had cleared from Buena Vista

Hyrum Smith and Joseph Smith 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Nebraska arrives by way ofHyrum Smith and Joseph Smith, 19th Century paired portraits of the Mormon prophet and his elder brother, rendered in the sober lithographic style reserved for martyrs, their likenesses fixed not long before the Carthage jail made saints of them in the eyes of a young, restless faith. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,