Iowa State Building World Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 Victoria_BC_map Patrick Henry Before the Virginia

Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses

The portrait belongs to the long Reconstruction afterglow

Elected President When Fifty One — a paired portrait study tracing the rail-splitter's three decades from frontier youth to the man who would inherit a fracturing Union

Henry Ward Beecher 1871 — a portrait of the Brooklyn pulpit's most thunderous voice at the height of his postwar influence

and patient repetition

Iowa State Building World Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 Victoria_BC_map Patrick Henry Before the VirginiaIowa State Building, World Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893. A souvenir rendering of the Hawkeye State's pavilion on the White City grounds, where corn belt prosperity was dressed in classical columns and offered up alongside the nation's other states as proof that the prairie had arrived. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical