Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 sacramento_print Henry Clay Nominated for Eleventh

Henry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States

A centennial chromolithograph mustering every state and territorial seal into one heraldic chorus

and the brick canyons of Market Street where penny postcards once moved faster than the trolleys

The Presidents of the United States 1842 assembles the republic's first ten executives into a single engraved gallery

when the war had cooled into lithographic memory and veterans on both sides had begun the slow

Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 sacramento_print Henry Clay Nominated for EleventhCamp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 a documentary view of the Union's vast prison stockade on the lakefront, where Confederate captives wintered behind plank walls and rumor of conspiracy. The image carries the cold ledger weight of 1864: barracks in rows, sentries at their posts, a war counted in men confined. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional