Death of Lieut Col Henry Clay Jr of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers Frame Style:Bourbon Frame every doorway holding a story

every doorway holding a story the photographer was lucky to catch

The scenes carry the weight of a ledger: encampments

The Temple of Fortune: Wall Street's Gilded Altar renders the Stock Exchange as a Greco-Roman shrine to capital — pediment

rendered with the studied gravity of a Democrat trying to outlast the Panic of '37 and the Whig knives already sharpening for 1840

Death of Lieut Col Henry Clay Jr of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers Frame Style:Bourbon Frame every doorway holding a storyDeath of Lieut Col Henry Clay Jr of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers a mournful lithograph fixing the fall of the Great Compromiser's son at Buena Vista in 1847, where Manifest Destiny exacted its private toll on one of the Senate's most famous bloodlines. 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