George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 World map print when a single morning's gunnery

when a single morning's gunnery had folded the Spanish fleet and the Republic's reach into one telegram

where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry-goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance

New York Coney Island arrives in a salt-bright clatter of Steeplechase horses

the Heroes of Palo Alto

The crowd moves like ink across the plate

George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 World map print when a single morning's gunneryGeorge M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 a campaign era portrait of Polk's running mate, the Philadelphia lawyer whose tie breaking Senate vote would lower the tariff and whose name would be hung on a Texas town just shy of annexation. The lithograph carries the polished confidence of a Democrat riding Manifest Destiny straight into office. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the