Henry Clay 1835-1852 founding father art Lincoln as Boy 1914 —

Lincoln as Boy 1914 — a 1914 backward glance at the rail-splitter before the railsplitting

his face the founding republic's most reproduced icon

refighting Tippecanoe on paper to elect a president three decades later

the South's grief hardening into iconography

Henry Clay 1835-1852 founding father art Lincoln as Boy 1914 —Henry Clay 1835 1852 a portrait of the Great Compromiser across the years he spent stitching the Union together with words alone, the Kentucky senator whose oratory bent the Whig century around the question of whether the republic could hold. 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 publishers (Currier &