Henry Clay 1843 framed shears patent The lithograph trades the ledger

The lithograph trades the ledger of recruits for something more intimate: a household photographed against the backdrop of a country still tearing itself apart

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

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

Henry Clay 1843 framed shears patent The lithograph trades the ledgerHenry 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