General Z. Taylor the Hero of the Rio Grande 1846 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap a chromolithograph already rehearsing the

a chromolithograph already rehearsing the republic's centennial pageant — a hundred years measured in rails

1881 — a presidential portrait of the New York customs man elevated by Garfield's bullet

when Pasadena rose gardens and Hollywood Boulevard marquees were still the stuff of mailed wonder

and the orderly choreography of constitutional succession

A Victorian astrologer's plate that still carries the gravity of natural philosophy — half ephemeris

General Z. Taylor the Hero of the Rio Grande 1846 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap a chromolithograph already rehearsing theGeneral Z. Taylor the Hero of the Rio Grande 1846 a campaign portrait minted in the smoke of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, when Old Rough and Ready's victories along the Rio Grande were already being engraved into a presidency Manifest Destiny had not yet finished arguing for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and