General James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847 Frame Style:Ebony Frame his name and regiment inked

his name and regiment inked into the same ledger that had counted him toward Appomattox

Mount Hood floating snow-bright on the horizon

Michigan Detroit arrives in lithographed views of Woodward Avenue at full hum — streetcars

Geographical Historical and Statistical Chart of the United States of America 1835 — a Jacksonian-era reference engraving that flatters the young republic with columns of population figures

cotton bales stacked on Natchez landings

General James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847 Frame Style:Ebony Frame his name and regiment inkedGeneral James Irvin, Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847. A campaign portrait from the twilight of the Whig hour, when Irvin carried the party's banner against Francis Shunk in a Pennsylvania already restless with the Mexican War's spoils and the slavery question simmering beneath every stump speech. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,