Henry Clay 1843 framed shears patent all set against the Wasatch

all set against the Wasatch Range rising abruptly from the valley floor like a curtain pulled back on the desert

The Presidents of the United States: Washington 1789 to Fillmore 1850 — a gallery lithograph assembling the republic's first thirteen executives

The Gentlemans Vice Patent 675756 is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

General in Chief of the Armies of the United States

Henry Clay 1843 framed shears patent all set against the WasatchHenry Clay 1843 the Great Compromiser caught in the long interval between defeats, his Whig features rendered with the gravity of a man already rehearsing another run at the presidency. A portrait drawn from the years when Clay's voice still moved the Senate and the Union it strained to hold together. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional