Gen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880 xmas tree rustic art The scene reads like a

The scene reads like a society column rendered in silver gelatin

conveniently issued as the Indianapolis lawyer mounted his march on the White House

The 1877 dating places it squarely in the long aftermath of the war

the South's grief hardening into iconography

the orbits drawn with the gravity of scripture

Gen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880 xmas tree rustic art The scene reads like aGen Chester A. Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1880. A campaign portrait of the Customs House collector turned running mate to Garfield the side whiskered machine politician rendered in respectable lithographic gravity, half a year before an assassin's bullet would promote him into the office no one expected him to hold. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the