Angelica Van Buren 1844 pacific coast art his shoulder straps speaking the

his shoulder straps speaking the language of a republic that promoted its politicians into uniform

and the slow tidewater glamour of the Battle House

when the Great Strike paralyzed half the country and the men who drove the iron horses pressed their case in oil-soaked solidarity

to be a metropolis

fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary

Angelica Van Buren 1844 pacific coast art his shoulder straps speaking theAngelica Van Buren 1844. The widower president's niece by marriage rendered as White House hostess, her portrait carrying the cultivated polish of a Jacksonian court that styled itself republican while quietly borrowing the manners of European salons. 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 lithographic publishers