Benjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame 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

A lithograph of the Little Bighorn rendered in the romantic register the nation preferred — Custer upright amid the swirl

the year of Gettysburg and the Proclamation

rendered with the swagger of a man who carried San Juan Hill into the Oval Office and treated the presidency itself as a kind of expedition

Benjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Oklahoma Tulsa arrives slick withBenjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century a portrait of the Massachusetts lawyer turned Union general whose occupation of New Orleans earned him the nickname "Beast," rendered in the heavy browed gravity nineteenth century engravers reserved for men who governed by edict and answered to Lincoln alone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical