Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 Vintage_MASS_map 19th Century — a self-rendered

19th Century — a self-rendered account from the rail-splitter turned wartime president

A campaign portrait of the Kentuckian who split the Democracy and ran on the Southern ticket — the lithograph carries the brittle confidence of a party already fracturing along the fault line that would

Benjamin Franklin 1779 — the printer-philosopher rendered mid-mission in Paris

General John Alexander Logan 1874 — the Illinois volunteer turned senator rendered in the sober dignity of a postwar portrait

and call that combination victory before the ballots are counted

Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933 Vintage_MASS_map 19th Century — a self-renderedFranklin D. Roosevelt 1933 a portrait fixed at the threshold of his first inauguration, when the country was hollowed by Depression and the new president told a frightened nation that fear itself was the enemy worth naming. The image carries that pivot: a republic deciding to try again. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,