John M. Robinson, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame its twelve houses engraved with

its twelve houses engraved with the old conviction that a soul's hour of birth was inked somewhere between Aries and Pisces

his stoic likeness fixed in the very year Dred Scott detonated through the Court and the country leaned hard toward its reckoning

the Maid of the Mist

New Cathedral of New York Fifth Avenue 1859

John M. Robinson, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame its twelve houses engraved withJohn M. Robinson, 19th Century an engraved portrait of the Illinois senator whose Jacksonian loyalties carried him from the state bench to the floor of the U. S. Senate, his likeness rendered with the sober formality reserved for men who legislated the republic's restless westward push. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,