Death of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame its braced iron legs drafted

its braced iron legs drafted with the quiet confidence of engineers who knew that mud

The Keepers Vigil — Lighthouse Lantern Room Architectural Blueprint renders the lantern-room geometry with the obsessive precision of an engineer who knew a Fresnel apparatus is only as true as the iron cradle beneath it

as if he knew the whole vessel of a sailor's night depended on inches

Cincinnati

Death of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame its braced iron legs draftedDeath of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 a documentary lithograph rendering Henry Clay Jr.'s last moments in the Mexican chaparral, the son of the Great Compromiser felled in a war his father had warned against. Manifest Destiny's confidence here meets its private cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical