Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, 1840 Table_of_Element_Art 19th Century — a self-rendered

19th Century — a self-rendered account from the rail-splitter turned wartime president

Every course of masonry and curve of the lantern-room geometry is set down with the patience of men building against the sea

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The Depp Apparatus Patent for the Extraction of Spirits comes from an era when the distiller was half-engineer

Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, 1840 Table_of_Element_Art 19th Century — a self-renderedRichard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, 1840. The Kentuckian who rode the legend of Tecumseh's death into Van Buren's second chair, rendered here in the fixed solemnity of a campaign era portrait a Jacksonian foot soldier elevated to the rostrum, just as the Whigs sharpened their knives for the log cabin election. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the