James Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap 1860s–1890s

1860s–1890s

Taylor's Victories on the Rio Grande 1846 — a campaign lithograph trumpeting Zachary Taylor's opening triumphs at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma

where the firmament thins and the sun itself becomes just another star

nothing burns entirely alone

James Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap 1860s–1890sJames Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 a cabinet portrait of Tyler's brief appointee, the Pennsylvania jurist whom the Senate would refuse to confirm, his tenure at the War Department a footnote in the bruised politics of a presidency without a party. 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