Honorable Hannibal Hamlin, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1860 Sacramento_canvas Heading a Stampede 1888 —

Heading a Stampede 1888 — a cattle-country scene rendered with the urgency of men who had ridden it

the Senate's thunder reduced to a whispered summons — fitting valediction for the Kentuckian whose Union-keeping bargains outlived him by less than a decade

capitol dome

transmuting a campaign likeness into elegy

and adobe missions baking under a turquoise sky

Honorable Hannibal Hamlin, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1860 Sacramento_canvas Heading a Stampede 1888 —Honorable Hannibal Hamlin, Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1860. A campaign portrait of the Maine senator hoisted onto Lincoln's ticket the steady New England face the new Republican party offered the country in the season before secession turned ballots into battlefields. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional