Daniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 discipline_artwork and a lantern room sized

and a lantern room sized for the modest reach of a sixth-order Fresnel

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A mid-century lithograph that resurrects the Sage of Philadelphia for a Republic well past his own — Franklin rendered in the iconography the antebellum era loved best

when Guastavino tilework arched overhead like the nave of a buried cathedral and the first downtown trains slid through Heins & LaFarge's vaulted dark

the numerals trailing the name suggesting a plate pulled from some larger compendium of American likenesses — Washington rendered

Daniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 discipline_artwork and a lantern room sizedDaniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 a campaign portrait floated by Whigs who believed the Senate's great voice belonged in the executive chair, printed on the eve of a contest that would instead crown a Mexican War general and leave Webster, again, the bridesmaid of the Republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National