Henry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States 1835 framed president art dark-walled reading rooms

dark-walled reading rooms

The Broadway Line Gilded Age Street Scene moves at the cadence of a horsecar clattering past plate-glass storefronts and gaslit awnings

and the slow arithmetic of a Union held together by ink

issued in the same season Philadelphia opened its great Exhibition and the country tried

Henry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States 1835 framed president art dark-walled reading roomsHenry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States, 1835. A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig ascendancy, the Kentucky senator rendered with the studied dignity of a man certain the presidency was his a certainty the electorate would, again, decline to share. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional