His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 grit_artwork rendered with the three stars

rendered with the three stars he wore as the first lieutenant general since Washington

Joseph Hodges Choate 1915

printed on the eve of a contest that would instead crown a Mexican War general and leave Webster

the Pennsylvania jurist whom the Senate would refuse to confirm

His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 grit_artwork rendered with the three starsHis Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875. A devotional portrait of the first American to wear the red hat, rendered in the formal idiom of post war ecclesiastical printmaking biretta, pectoral cross, and the steady gaze of a prelate whose elevation marked the Catholic arrival in a Protestant republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National