Dixon H. Lewis, Representative From Alabama, 1839 Pittsburgh_Poster Robert Louis Stevenson 199 —

Robert Louis Stevenson 199 — a portrait of the Scottish novelist whose American sojourns from Saranac Lake to the Pacific made him a fixture of late-century literary celebrity

issued seventy years after his death by a republic still arguing over what he meant

and these lithographed views and linen postcards trade in salt air

and the namesake stone outcrop that gave the city its quiet

the bayonets advance

Dixon H. Lewis, Representative From Alabama, 1839 Pittsburgh_Poster Robert Louis Stevenson 199 —Dixon H. Lewis, Representative From Alabama, 1839 a portrait of the immense Alabaman whose voice on the House floor carried the South's states rights creed through the Jacksonian decade, rendered in the engraver's solemn flatter on the eve of his ascent to the Senate. 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