John N. Mackay 1912 Framed Los Angeles Oklahoma Tulsa arrives slick with

Oklahoma Tulsa arrives slick with derrick grease and Art Deco ambition — a city that called itself the Oil Capital of the World and had the lithographed postcards to prove it

The likeness carries the heavy composure of a man more comfortable on the bench than the stump

cataloguing the campaigns of the man whose stubborn arithmetic ground the rebellion to dust and who now stood

Brig General George W Morgan 1862 — the Ohio lawyer-soldier in regulation tunic and brigadier's stars

John N. Mackay 1912 Framed Los Angeles Oklahoma Tulsa arrives slick withJohn N. Mackay 1912 a portrait fixed at the hinge of the century, when a private name committed to the photographic plate carried the quiet formality of a republic still rehearsing its own modernity, two years before the guns of August would force it to grow up. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic