James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Assassinated April 14th 1865 —

Assassinated April 14th 1865 — a mourning lithograph issued in the rawest hours of national grief

Whig Candidate for Fourteenth President of the United States

A streetscape from the era when Harlem promised mansions and music halls before the boulevard itself was rewritten

the tribute of a nation newly persuaded of its own reach

Genl Franklin Pierce Fourteenth President of the United States 1853

James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Assassinated April 14th 1865 —James Knox Polk President of the United States 1845. The dark eyed Tennessean rendered in the year of his inauguration, jaw set for a single term of acquisition Texas annexed, Oregon negotiated, war with Mexico already gathering on the horizon. A campaign portrait of Manifest Destiny in human form. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional