William A. Graham, Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1852 Frame Style:Ebony Frame deliberate work of canonizing its

deliberate work of canonizing its wartime executives in lithographed remembrance

his likeness pressed back into civic service when the Republic needed its founding griefs to steady a generation marching toward Belleau Wood

Belongs in a barber school

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

Chesapeake skipjacks

William A. Graham, Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1852 Frame Style:Ebony Frame deliberate work of canonizing itsWilliam A. Graham, Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1852. A campaign portrait from the Whigs' last gasp Graham yoked to Winfield Scott on a ticket the party would not survive, the lithographer's careful shading lending dignity to a coalition already fracturing over slavery's westward creep. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,