Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850 gift_for_firefighter captured in the sober years

captured in the sober years when the AEF returned home and the republic learned to wear its new uniform of global consequence

Abraham Lincoln 197 belongs to the long iconographic procession of the sixteenth president — that gaunt prairie face multiplied across a thousand prints and plates

Abraham Lincoln Born Feb 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 Martyred April 14th 1865

its spiral stair and lantern-room geometry plotted with the precision of men who knew the Gulf would test every joint and course of masonry they laid

Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850 gift_for_firefighter captured in the sober yearsDaniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850. A documentary engraving of the Massachusetts orator on the floor where Clay's Compromise hung in the balance Webster rising not as a Northerner or a Whig, but as an American, his Seventh of March speech already echoing toward the rupture it briefly forestalled. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,