Daniel Webster 1865 old indiana print Empire wore a white uniform

Empire wore a white uniform that year

the jazz-age skyline

when the empire he once attended in Vienna had already dissolved into the unwelcome new geography of postwar Europe

Drafted for the fair that announced America to itself

and large-letter greetings stamped against fir and snowpack

Daniel Webster 1865 old indiana print Empire wore a white uniformDaniel Webster 1865 a posthumous likeness of the Massachusetts orator issued more than a decade after his death, when the Union he had begged to preserve had finally been bled into permanence. The engraving belongs to the long aftermath, when his thunderous senatorial cadence was already being fitted for marble. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,