The Defenders of Faith of the Catholic Church and of the United States 1878 framed barber chair his likeness fixed in the

his likeness fixed in the years when he thundered against secession from the Senate floor and the Union still believed itself salvageable

19th Century — a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography

Grant 1877 — the general turned president rendered in the twilight of his second term

Tuskegee University

The Defenders of Faith of the Catholic Church and of the United States 1878 framed barber chair his likeness fixed in theThe Defenders of Faith of the Catholic Church and of the United States 1878 a chromolithograph that twins ecclesiastical heraldry with civic loyalty, arranging pontiffs and presidents into a single devotional grid for the immigrant parlors of a republic still negotiating its post war soul. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical