Dixon H. Lewis, Representative From Alabama, 1839 Size:18x24 decades before Appomattox would rewrite

decades before Appomattox would rewrite his name

before the White House and the Chief Justiceship

Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 renders the Ford's Theatre conspiracy as moral allegory — a horned figure whispering at the actor's ear

The Ivory Pipe Patent Blueprint of a Gentlemans Vice belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

and squeezers that turned the Gilded Age cocktail into a small piece of theater

Dixon H. Lewis, Representative From Alabama, 1839 Size:18x24 decades before Appomattox would rewriteDixon H. Lewis, Representative From Alabama, 1839 a portrait of the immense Alabaman whose voice on the House floor carried the South's states rights creed through the Jacksonian decade, rendered in the engraver's solemn flatter on the eve of his ascent to the Senate. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the