Oliver Wendell Holmes 1894 NY_Mets_Poster For President W

For President W

issued in the long shadow of the war that nearly unmade it — the dates bracketing a century in which the promises of Philadelphia were tested

Horace Greeley 1872 — the editor of the Tribune turned reluctant candidate

and seat for the first-order Fresnel is rendered with the precision of men who knew that a single misaligned prism could doom a Nantucket schooner

the firmament's most quiet memento mori

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1894 NY_Mets_Poster For President WOliver Wendell Holmes 1894. A late life portrait of the Boston physician poet in his eighty fifth year, rendered with the quiet reverence reserved for a last surviving Fireside Bard the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table grown silver, his Brahmin wit settled into elder statesman of American letters. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical