Henry Clay 1843 framed shears patent where four centuries after Columbus

where four centuries after Columbus the republic dressed its industrial muscle in Beaux-Arts plaster and called the result a New World

the republic paused to commemorate itself in lithographed laurels and patriotic flourish

The Presidents of the United States: Washington 1789 to Fillmore 1850 — a gallery lithograph assembling the republic's first thirteen executives

all set against the Wasatch Range rising abruptly from the valley floor like a curtain pulled back on the desert

A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig ascendancy

Henry Clay 1843 framed shears patent where four centuries after ColumbusHenry Clay 1843 the Great Compromiser caught in the long interval between defeats, his Whig features rendered with the gravity of a man already rehearsing another run at the presidency. A portrait drawn from the years when Clay's voice still moved the Senate and the Union it strained to hold together. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional