Death of Hon'l Henry Clay - My Son I Am Going, Sit by Me, 1852 tacoma_old_map and Golden Gate views lithographed

and Golden Gate views lithographed before the bridge ever spanned them

and the kind of host who has opinions about ice

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The likeness belongs less to the man than to the memory: Jefferson rendered as civic scripture

A postcard sent from the moment Manhattan stopped being a city and started behaving like a constellation

Death of Hon'l Henry Clay - My Son I Am Going, Sit by Me, 1852 tacoma_old_map and Golden Gate views lithographedDeath of Hon'l Henry Clay My Son I Am Going, Sit by Me, 1852. A deathbed lithograph of the Great Compromiser in his final hour, the Senate's thunder reduced to a whispered summons fitting valediction for the Kentuckian whose Union keeping bargains outlived him by less than a decade. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and