John Randolph of Roanoke 1876 Gift_for_Raiders_Fan Greeting cards and linen plates

Greeting cards and linen plates from the Mile High City

his features softened by half a century of national mythmaking

his Mexican War laurels burnished into the iconography of a Union already cracking beneath the rhetoric of compromise

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John Randolph of Roanoke 1876 Gift_for_Raiders_Fan Greeting cards and linen platesJohn Randolph of Roanoke 1876 a posthumous engraving of the acid tongued Virginia orator, issued in the centennial year when the Republic was busy reconciling itself to its quarrelsome founders. Randolph's gaunt profile returns here as relic, the states' rights firebrand recast as gentleman antiquity. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional