Henry Clay of Kentucky 1848 Raiders_Wall_Art 1844 — a Whig portrait

1844 — a Whig portrait from the year Polk's expansionists swept the field

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

equal parts populist saint and Bank-slayer

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

hand down Dred Scott and split the republic at its seams

Henry Clay of Kentucky 1848 Raiders_Wall_Art 1844 — a Whig portraitHenry 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,