Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824-1840 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame his epaulettes catching the light

his epaulettes catching the light of a republic newly drunk on blue-water victory and the cabled headlines of an empire announcing itself

presenting the Buffalo lawyer as Zachary Taylor's running mate in the season when the Mexican War's spoils had begun to fracture every party that touched them

his Tippecanoe laurels burnished into Whig iconography for the noisiest election the young republic had yet endured

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Durand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824-1840 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame his epaulettes catching the lightDurand Co Bank Note Engravers 1824 1840 a specimen sheet from the firm whose burin discipline anchored the paper currency of a young republic, when every state bank issued its own promises and only the engraver's line stood between solvency and forgery. 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 publishers