Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame 1844 — a Whig portrait

1844 — a Whig portrait from the year Polk's expansionists swept the field

the kind of encampment ledger-image that fixed a regiment's brief tenancy of a border city the Union could not afford to lose

civic grief and civic pride rendered in the same patient line

prophecy mistaken for madness

In the Dark Days

Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame 1844 — a Whig portraitMrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century a portrait of Adele Cutts Douglas, the Washington belle who married the Little Giant at the height of his quarrels with Lincoln, rendered with the soft formality reserved for senatorial wives whose drawing rooms doubled as the antechambers of antebellum power. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical