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Abraham Lincoln 19th Century — a portrait of the wartime president rendered in the grave register of his age

A campaign portrait of the Bluegrass abolitionist at his most combative — the slaveholding South's apostate son rendered as Liberty's standard-bearer in the year his True American press in Lexington was dismantled by his own neighbors

the war scarcely a month old

his face conscripted into the civic liturgy of a republic newly bloodied by another war

Henry Clay 1844 Size:18x24 its plates of rating badgesHenry Clay 1844. A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser in the year his third bid for the presidency faltered against Polk and the gathering tide of annexation Clay rendered in the steady gravity of Whig lithography, a statesman of the Senate caught at the threshold of a country choosing expansion over caution. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,