Mouton, Senator From Louisiana, 1849 Kalamazoo_poster and the artifacts of American

and the artifacts of American urban memory

The Iron Sentinel of Southwest Pass — a screw-pile skeleton driven into the soft Mississippi delta where the river bleeds into the Gulf

The portraitist's hand is steady

Louis Cathedral mingling with linen postcards of Mardi Gras krewes and the courtyards of the Vieux Carré

and Newark trolley scenes lithographed in the bright inks of the linen era

Mouton, Senator From Louisiana, 1849 Kalamazoo_poster and the artifacts of AmericanMouton, Senator From Louisiana, 1849 a Senate portrait of Alexander Mouton at the close of his term, rendered in the formal vocabulary of the antebellum engraver, when Louisiana's voice in Washington carried the weight of sugar, slavery, and the restless arithmetic of expansion. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the