Daniel Webster 1865 old indiana print An ecclesiastical portrait of the

An ecclesiastical portrait of the Black American clergyman who carried his miter to Port-au-Prince

Drafted for the fair that announced America to itself

Portrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York

his likeness pressed back into civic service when the Republic needed its founding griefs to steady a generation marching toward Belleau Wood

The image carries the weight of a South still convinced of its commanders

Daniel Webster 1865 old indiana print An ecclesiastical portrait of theDaniel Webster 1865 a posthumous likeness of the Massachusetts orator issued more than a decade after his death, when the Union he had begged to preserve had finally been bled into permanence. The engraving belongs to the long aftermath, when his thunderous senatorial cadence was already being fitted for marble. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,