John Brown 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame One Holy Catholic and Apostolic

One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Hierarchy of British America 1886 charts the ecclesiastical architecture of a continent — bishops

A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser in the year his third bid for the presidency faltered against Polk and the gathering tide of annexation — Clay rendered in the steady gravity of Whig lithography

his clubfoot and lacerating wit equally legendary in the House chamber where he hammered out emancipation and

A portrait of the Carolina senator whose defense of slavery on the Senate floor drew Charles Sumner's scalding rebuke — and Preston Brooks's cane in answer

and stainless crowns

John Brown 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame One Holy Catholic and ApostolicJohn Brown 19th Century the abolitionist rendered with the severe gaze of a man already convinced that the republic's sin would only be answered in blood. A portrait that carries Harpers Ferry in its eyes long before the raid, prophecy mistaken for madness. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic