Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame California Hollywood arrives in linen-postcard

California Hollywood arrives in linen-postcard pastels and lithographed glamour — palm-lined boulevards

and the postcards know every mile of it — Lookout Mountain panoramas

The Lunar Pull a Study of Celestial Forces and Earthly Waters — a Victorian selenographic plate that traces the silver tether between moon and tide

postmarked from the cotton mills' last good decade

Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame California Hollywood arrives in linen-postcardZachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 a campaign portrait minted in the afterglow of Buena Vista, when Old Rough and Ready was hoisted from the Mexican War's powder smoke into Whig parlors as the soldier statesman destiny seemed to demand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,