Thaddeus Stevens 1838 Kalamazoo_city Stephen Grover Cleveland 1884 —

Stephen Grover Cleveland 1884 — a campaign portrait from the year the Buffalo reformer broke a quarter-century of Republican rule

when the men who fed America's furnaces organized their grievances into something the operators could no longer ignore — solidarity rendered in the formal type of a movement still finding its language

domestic kind of light

rendering the General-President as a brother of the lodge as much as a father of the republic

The Iron Sentinel of Southwest Pass — a screw-pile skeleton driven into the soft Mississippi delta where the river bleeds into the Gulf

Thaddeus Stevens 1838 Kalamazoo_city Stephen Grover Cleveland 1884 —Thaddeus Stevens 1838. A portrait of the Pennsylvania firebrand caught mid career, years before his radical ascendancy in Congress, when his quarrel with the slaveholding republic was still being waged in statehouse chambers and the cutting prose of antebellum debate. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the