Hon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century vintage tobacco art and shipped from the United

and shipped from the United States — never mass-produced overseas

a campaign portrait trading on gunpowder credentials and the Manifest Destiny swagger of a republic that had just swallowed half a continent

Each plate burns at the seam where heliography met natural theology — the firmament as furnace

Missouri St Louis rises in these postcards beneath the silver curve of the Mississippi — Eads Bridge stitched across the water

depending on which side of expansion you stood

Hon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century vintage tobacco art and shipped from the UnitedHon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century. A portrait of the Carolina senator whose defense of slavery on the Senate floor drew Charles Sumner's scalding rebuke and Preston Brooks's cane in answer. Butler's likeness carries the courtly hauteur of a planter class already arguing itself toward war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the