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The Speech That Won the Nomination at the National Democratic Convention at Chicago

dirigibles tethered to needle-spires

the People's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait floated on the eve of the 1848 race

rendered in the season when Manifest Destiny had grown confident enough to mistake conquest for inheritance

the Kentucky senator rendered with the studied dignity of a man certain the presidency was his — a certainty the electorate would

U S S Portland Passing Under St John's Bridge Portland Oregon Size:36x24 The Speech That Won theU S S Portland Passing Under St John's Bridge Portland Oregon arrives in steel and steam the cruiser's gray hull gliding the Willamette beneath the suspension towers, their Gothic arches strung high against the Cascade haze, while dockside cranes and timbered bluffs frame the channel. A moment of naval pride and river commerce caught in linen postcards from the 1930s. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard