Henry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States 1835 framed president art Bruce of Mississippi

Bruce of Mississippi

The Broadway Line Gilded Age Street Scene moves at the cadence of a horsecar clattering past plate-glass storefronts and gaslit awnings

dark-walled reading rooms

A fraternal emblem from the nativist workingmen's lodges that flourished in the shadow of antebellum immigration debates — compass

Henry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States 1835 framed president art Bruce of MississippiHenry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States, 1835. A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig ascendancy, the Kentucky senator rendered with the studied dignity of a man certain the presidency was his a certainty the electorate would, again, decline to share. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional