The Presidents of the United States 1842 Swiss Flag Sign and the broad prairie main

and the broad prairie main street where ranch country met railroad town under an open Dakota sky

a map of the United States rendered as a hog and garlanded with the regional dishes of each state

printed in the war's final spring

The lithograph carries the gravity of a Democrat asking a skeptical republic to believe in plain speech again

The Presidents of the United States 1842 Swiss Flag Sign and the broad prairie mainThe Presidents of the United States 1842 assembles the republic's first ten executives into a single engraved gallery, issued in the Tyler interregnum when the Whig coalition was fracturing and the office itself still felt like an experiment with eight surviving variations. 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