His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 Toilet_Canvas_Art hand down Dred Scott and

hand down Dred Scott and split the republic at its seams

where ocean breezes once carried the calliope's tune toward Wesley Lake

California San Francisco arrives in fog and cable-car bells — a postcard city of Nob Hill terraces

1848 — a campaign lithograph of the Kentucky general Lewis Cass tapped as running mate

His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 Toilet_Canvas_Art hand down Dred Scott andHis Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875. A commemorative portrait marking the elevation of the first American cardinal Rome's red hat settled upon a Manhattan see, the immigrant Church stepping into the civic light of a republic still stitching itself back together. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical