Henry Clay 1835-1852 founding father art occupying the very chair once

occupying the very chair once held by Jefferson Davis

Hayes 1877 — a presidential portrait from the year the Compromise seated him in office and pulled the last federal troops from the South

The Keepers Blueprint Blackistone Island Light Station charts the modest brick dwelling that once watched over the Potomac's St

the South's grief hardening into iconography

Eminent Colored Men Frederick Douglass 1884 places the great orator at the center of a post-war pantheon

Henry Clay 1835-1852 founding father art occupying the very chair onceHenry Clay 1835 1852 a portrait of the Great Compromiser across the years he spent stitching the Union together with words alone, the Kentucky senator whose oratory bent the Whig century around the question of whether the republic could hold. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier &