James Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States 1857 Size:18x24 vintage-inspired designs

vintage-inspired designs

occupying the very chair once held by Jefferson Davis

the whole troubled procession of expansion and equivocation rendered in respectful parlor portraiture

fire escapes

Old Faithful

James Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States 1857 Size:18x24 vintage-inspired designsJames Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States 1857 a campaign era portrait of the Pennsylvania bachelor who inherited a Union already cracking, his stoic likeness fixed in the very year Dred Scott detonated through the Court and the country leaned hard toward its reckoning. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,