55th Spanish-American War Congress, 1899 Size:36x24 every line of the portrait

every line of the portrait carrying the brass and bluster of a man who believed the strenuous life was a national posture as much as a personal creed

Hayes 1877 — a presidential portrait from the year the Compromise seated him in office and pulled the last federal troops from the South

like the Confederacy itself

19th Century — a portrait of the man dispatched from a peninsula still half-wilderness

55th Spanish-American War Congress, 1899 Size:36x24 every line of the portrait55th Spanish American War Congress, 1899 a group portrait of the legislators who steered the republic through its imperial debut, their composed rows belying the volatile session that ratified the Treaty of Paris and inherited Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in a single stroke of pen. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical