Our Nation's Choice: Rutherford B. Hayes & William A. Wheeler 1876 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition

Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition along the avenue of new fortunes

and the unsmiling gaze of a man who held the high ground in July of 1863 and understood

Abraham Lincoln 1860 — the prairie lawyer rendered on the eve of his improbable ascent

and any space that honors the country's most consequential reckoning

Our Nation's Choice: Rutherford B. Hayes & William A. Wheeler 1876 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Patrick's rising in Gothic ambitionOur Nation's Choice: Rutherford B. Hayes & William A. Wheeler 1876 a Republican campaign lithograph from the centennial year, pairing the Ohio governor with his New York running mate on the eve of the most contested election the young republic had yet survived, its outcome decided not at the polls but in a back room. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,