Henry Clay of Kentucky 1848 grand central art Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 —

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 — the year Uncle Tom's Cabin left the printing press and entered the bloodstream of a divided republic

still bleeding

Admiral Dewey on the Bridge 1899 — a press image of the hero of Manila Bay at his command rail

smokestack diplomacy made flesh in epaulets and braid

architectural drawings

Henry Clay of Kentucky 1848 grand central art Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 —Henry Clay of Kentucky 1848 a campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser in the year of his last bid for the Whig nomination, his Senate floor thunder rendered into lithographed gravity. The face of a man who held the Union together by clauses and concessions, drawn as his era of brokered peace was already cracking. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,