Henry Clay 1843 framed shears patent or as a thoughtful gift

or as a thoughtful gift for cocktail lovers

where four centuries after Columbus the republic dressed its industrial muscle in Beaux-Arts plaster and called the result a New World

Churchill Downs twin spires under a Derby Day sky

all set against the Wasatch Range rising abruptly from the valley floor like a curtain pulled back on the desert

Henry Clay 1843 framed shears patent or as a thoughtful giftHenry Clay 1843 the Great Compromiser caught in the long interval between defeats, his Whig features rendered with the gravity of a man already rehearsing another run at the presidency. A portrait drawn from the years when Clay's voice still moved the Senate and the Union it strained to hold together. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional