Henry Clay of Kentucky 1842 era-gilded_age when a younger republic was

when a younger republic was busy canonizing its founders in ink and bookplate as it argued over what their union was now for

First Regiment German Rifles

issued in the year the Republic paused to count itself — wounds still fresh

the Charles Town morning rendered with the gravity of an abolitionist icon already passing into legend

Henry Clay of Kentucky 1842 era-gilded_age when a younger republic wasHenry Clay of Kentucky 1842 a campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig powers, rendered in the year he resigned his Senate seat to chase the presidency that would never quite be his. The lithograph carries the rhetorical thunder of a man who believed the Union could be argued into permanence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National