Death of Colonel Pierce M. Butler of the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment at Churubusco manhattan street art 1794 — the founding charter

1794 — the founding charter set in type alongside the figure who presided over its drafting

US Senator from Tennessee and Ex-President — a mortuary engraving for the only man to return to the Senate after impeachment

ink and lithographic stone bearing witness to a presidency measured in casualty lists

a statesman of the Senate caught at the threshold of a country choosing expansion over caution

Death of Colonel Pierce M. Butler of the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment at Churubusco manhattan street art 1794 — the founding charterDeath of Colonel Pierce M. Butler of the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment at Churubusco a martial lithograph from the Mexican War, fixing the moment a Carolina aristocrat fell beneath his regiment's blue standard, the South already rehearsing the iconography of sacrifice it would soon need in earnest. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional