Henry Clay of Kentucky 1848 Raiders_Wall_Art and lantern-room rib drawn by

and lantern-room rib drawn by a hand that understood hurricanes far better than it understood mercy

an astronomical lithograph in which Jupiter looms cathedral-vast above a diminished Earth and Mercury cowers like an acolyte

equal parts populist saint and Bank-slayer

Abraham Lincoln 1921 — a posthumous likeness issued well into the next century

the summer heavens pinned like specimens to the page

Henry Clay of Kentucky 1848 Raiders_Wall_Art and lantern-room rib drawn byHenry Clay of Kentucky 1848 a campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser in the year of his last bid for the Whig nomination, his Senate floor thunder rendered into lithographed gravity. The face of a man who held the Union together by clauses and concessions, drawn as his era of brokered peace was already cracking. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,