John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 Frame Style:Ebony Frame mid-term and mid-century

mid-term and mid-century

where Federal troops posed against the long Tennessee horizon in the autumn the war turned

painted canyons and lodgepole pines pulled from an era when the park was still mostly reached by stagecoach

Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century — a portrait of the Philadelphia physician-turned-playwright whose Jacksonian-era dramas and frontier novels gave the antebellum stage its taste for blood

ruled and ornamented for the careful entry of names and dates — the parlor-wall arithmetic of grief

John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 Frame Style:Ebony Frame mid-term and mid-centuryJohn Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 a Jacksonian appointee rendered in the sober gravity befitting the bench, his likeness drawn the year he took his seat among the brethren who would, two decades later, hand down Dred Scott and split the republic at its seams. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and