Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers vintage cigar art a likeness rendered in the

a likeness rendered in the sober tonal register of a country already acquainted with casualty lists

Centennial 1776–1876

his bearded gravity rendered in the heavy ink and steady line reserved for men who commanded fleets in a war fought as much by ledger as by cannon

the plainspoken cadence of a man who wrote his own beginnings before the country wrote his ending

smoke-like spirals and gem-strewn clusters that haunted the great reflectors of the 1800s — Lord Rosse's leviathan among them — into a single contemplative plate

Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers vintage cigar art a likeness rendered in theDeath of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers a battlefield lithograph from the Mexican War, mourning the Great Compromiser's son fallen at Buena Vista, where Manifest Destiny collected its private debts and a Kentucky regiment learned what the rhetoric of expansion actually cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,