Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough 19th Century grit_wall_art A campaign portrait of the

A campaign portrait of the Customs House collector turned running mate to Garfield — the side-whiskered machine politician rendered in respectable lithographic gravity

and large-letter greetings sent home between rounds of saltwater taffy and the slow turn of the Trimper carousel

James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845

and any wall that benefits from an unexpected detail

and white clapboard meetinghouses standing watch over the Green Mountains

Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough 19th Century grit_wall_art A campaign portrait of theLouis Malesherbes Goldsborough 19th Century a portrait of the Union flag officer whose North Atlantic Blockading Squadron pressed the coastline of the Confederacy, his bearded gravity rendered in the heavy ink and steady line reserved for men who commanded fleets in a war fought as much by ledger as by cannon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,