Daniel Webster Secretary of State 1843 large maine map unbarbered gravity of a man

unbarbered gravity of a man who insisted democracy could be sung

and men of letters into a single engraved pantheon — a Victorian act of remembrance that arranges the republic's faces in tidy rows

Mississippi arrives in linen and lithograph — magnolia-shaded courthouse lawns

The Eastman Pipe Patent — a Gentlemans Vice 189 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

Whig Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania 1847

Daniel Webster Secretary of State 1843 large maine map unbarbered gravity of a manDaniel Webster Secretary of State 1843 the Massachusetts orator rendered at his diplomatic post, fresh from negotiating the Webster Ashburton Treaty, his jaw set with the same gravity that thundered through Senate chambers on questions of Union, tariff, and the slow burning quarrel over the West. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical