Hon. John Bell, Secretary of War 1841 Prints mitre and pectoral cross doing

mitre and pectoral cross doing the quiet work of authority

or the kind of library that still smells faintly of pipe smoke

Masonic Temple Chicago 1892 — a documentary view of Burnham and Root's twenty-two-story colossus at State and Randolph

the kind of bound testament Americans pressed into parlor shelves while the wounds of Sumter and Appomattox were still fresh enough to sting

Abraham Lincoln With Malice Toward None With Charity for All — the closing cadence of the Second Inaugural set against Lincoln's gaunt likeness

Hon. John Bell, Secretary of War 1841 Prints mitre and pectoral cross doingHon. John Bell, Secretary of War 1841 a Whig portrait of the Tennessean called to Harrison's cabinet in the spring of an ill fated administration, his likeness rendered with the formal dignity owed a man who would hold the War Department for scarcely six months before Tyler's ascendancy unraveled it all. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional