C.C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, 19th Century Victoria_BC_Wall_Art state admissions

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longhorns drifting across rangeland that runs flat to the horizon

These are postcards written from a city built to be photographed

their elliptical chains drawn taut against the firmament

and Golden Gate views lithographed before the bridge ever spanned them

C.C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, 19th Century Victoria_BC_Wall_Art state admissionsC. C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, 19th Century. A Senate portrait of the Alabaman in the years when Southern men spoke of states' rights with the certainty of scripture, his likeness rendered in the careful gravity reserved for those who carried Manifest Destiny's confidence and its rot in equal measure. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional