Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, 1840 Art_for_Kitchen when the men who fed

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

Pennsylvania Philadelphia arrives by way of cobblestone and cracked bell — lithographed views of Independence Hall

Minnesota Rochester arrives in lithographed views shaped by the Mayo brothers and the medical pilgrims who made this prairie town famous — Saint Marys Hospital rising over Zumbro River bottoms

The Publicans Precision Cornelius Beer Tap Patent is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

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Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, 1840 Art_for_Kitchen when the men who fedRichard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, 1840. The Kentuckian who rode the legend of Tecumseh's death into Van Buren's second chair, rendered here in the fixed solemnity of a campaign era portrait a Jacksonian foot soldier elevated to the rostrum, just as the Whigs sharpened their knives for the log cabin election. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the