William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 vintage tobacco art his bones carried ashore as

his bones carried ashore as the republic that outlived him sent its own sons into the trenches of France

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An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument

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The choice to set those warnings in type again

William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 vintage tobacco art his bones carried ashore asWilliam Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 a mourning portrait issued in the strange hush after thirty one days in office, the Whig general felled by pneumonia before the ink on his inaugural had properly dried. The word Late does the heavy lifting here, transmuting a campaign likeness into elegy. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National