Hon. John Bell, Secretary of War, 1841 Vintage Fine Art the Capitol dome rising like

the Capitol dome rising like a smaller cousin of Washington's over a city of lake steamers and university quadrangles — a postcard town where lithographed views of State Street and linen cards of the Memorial Union terrace did steady work through the golden age

A documentary engraving of the chamber where Bleeding Kansas tried to legislate its way out of its own gunfire — the free-state men convened in defiance of a proslavery legislature

when Old Rough and Ready was hoisted from the Mexican War's powder smoke into Whig parlors as the soldier-statesman destiny seemed to demand

his bearded steadiness rendered in the engraver's deliberate cross-hatching

Historical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898

Hon. John Bell, Secretary of War, 1841 Vintage Fine Art the Capitol dome rising likeHon. John Bell, Secretary of War, 1841. A portrait of the Tennessee Whig at the moment William Henry Harrison's cabinet briefly seated him atop the War Department a tenure measured in weeks before Tyler's apostasy scattered the appointees, leaving Bell's brief command preserved here in the formal hand of antebellum political engraving. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the