William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 wyoming wall art rendered with the parlor decorum

rendered with the parlor decorum of a White House trying to look respectable again

where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin

and large-letter greetings stuffed with desert bloom

his likeness fixed at the threshold of an administration that would shepherd the state through McKinley's ascent and the slow machinery of Gilded Age statehouse politics

The Gentlemans Ritual Patent 167359 reads as a study in restraint — the close

William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 wyoming wall art rendered with the parlor decorumWilliam Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 a mourning portrait issued in the strange hush after thirty one days in office, the Whig general felled by pneumonia before the ink on his inaugural had properly dried. The word Late does the heavy lifting here, transmuting a campaign likeness into elegy. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National