Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers vintage cigar art smoke-like spirals and gem-strewn clusters

smoke-like spirals and gem-strewn clusters that haunted the great reflectors of the 1800s — Lord Rosse's leviathan among them — into a single contemplative plate

a likeness rendered in the sober tonal register of a country already acquainted with casualty lists

every brick laid in the currency of Gilded Age ascendancy

the red-bearded zealot who seized the St

Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers vintage cigar art smoke-like spirals and gem-strewn clustersDeath of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers a battlefield lithograph from the Mexican War, mourning the Great Compromiser's son fallen at Buena Vista, where Manifest Destiny collected its private debts and a Kentucky regiment learned what the rhetoric of expansion actually cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,