William H. Taft 19th Century Framed_new_Orleans domestic kind of light

domestic kind of light

fresh from reducing Fort Pulaski with rifled artillery and proving that masonry

every bolt threaded into Chesapeake mud is rendered with the patience of a draftsman who knew this little red drum had to outlast the river itself

and the great pre-war years

William H. Taft 19th Century Framed_new_Orleans domestic kind of lightWilliam H. Taft 19th Century a portrait of the future president as a younger man, before the White House and the Chief Justiceship, when Taft was still climbing the Ohio bench and the Gilded Age machinery of Republican patronage was quietly shaping a career that would touch every branch of American government. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,