Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, 19th Wife of Brigham Young, 1869-1875 Pro Bowl before Sumter

before Sumter

rendered in the year his break with Van Buren over the Independent Treasury hardened into open revolt — the lithographer's stone catching a politician mid-pivot

every funnel plume a punctuation mark in America's loudest diplomatic sentence

General in Chief of the Armies of the United States

a commemorative document compiled in the long shadow of the war — the republic taking stock of itself at the Exposition

Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, 19th Wife of Brigham Young, 1869-1875 Pro Bowl before SumterMrs. Ann Eliza Young, 19th Wife of Brigham Young, 1869 1875. A studio portrait of the apostate wife who sued the Mormon prophet for divorce and toured the lecture circuit with her grievance, her composed gaze carrying the weight of a marriage publicly unmade in the long, scrutinizing aftermath of the war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional