Joel Roberts Poinsett Secretary of War 1838 Framed_Orioles Chrysler — a jazz-age tribute

Chrysler — a jazz-age tribute to Walter Chrysler's stainless-steel crown

his uniform braid catching the light of a navy reinvented under fire

issued nearly a hundred years after his death

when the Ohio Whig's thunderous Senate speech against the Mexican War had made him either prophet or pariax

of the Magnolia Building rising over a prairie city that traded longhorns for skyscrapers in a single generation

Joel Roberts Poinsett Secretary of War 1838 Framed_Orioles Chrysler — a jazz-age tributeJoel Roberts Poinsett Secretary of War 1838 a portrait of the South Carolinian diplomat turned cabinet officer at the height of Van Buren's troubled administration, his tenure shadowed by the forced removals along the Trail of Tears and the slow churn of Seminole war in the Florida swamps. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical