Charles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The lithographer's careful shading lingers

The lithographer's careful shading lingers on those famously hollowed eyes

The Mechanics of Darkness a Victorian Study in Celestial Shadow charts eclipse geometry with the grave precision of a clockmaker dissecting an angel — umbra and penumbra plotted across the firmament as if shadow itself were a substance that could be measured

when Lincoln had passed from president into patron saint and printers competed to enshrine the martyr in parlor varnish three decades after Ford's Theatre

An ecclesiastical portrait of the Black American clergyman who carried his miter to Port-au-Prince

its cantilevered ironwork drawn with the gravity of an engineer who knew he was stitching Manhattan to Queens

Charles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The lithographer's careful shading lingersCharles F. Adams, Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848. A campaign portrait of the grandson and son of presidents, conscripted onto the Van Buren ticket under the banner of Free Soil a party whose single, unblinking demand was that the territories remain unstained by slavery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and