William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 vintage tobacco art The face is grave

The face is grave

or Xmas Gifts

The choice to set those warnings in type again

McKinley at the helm and Hobart at his shoulder as the country eased toward an empire it had not yet named

An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument

William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 vintage tobacco art The face is graveWilliam Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 a mourning portrait issued in the strange hush after thirty one days in office, the Whig general felled by pneumonia before the ink on his inaugural had properly dried. The word Late does the heavy lifting here, transmuting a campaign likeness into elegy. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National