C.C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The draftsman's hand lingers over

The draftsman's hand lingers over the gallery railings and the careful geometry of the focal plane

every joint a quiet argument with the surf off Cohasset

issued in the order's golden-age decade when lodges multiplied across Gilded Age cities and brotherhood itself had become a kind of civic religion

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C.C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The draftsman's hand lingers overC. C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, 19th Century. A Senate portrait of the Alabaman in the years when Southern men spoke of states' rights with the certainty of scripture, his likeness rendered in the careful gravity reserved for those who carried Manifest Destiny's confidence and its rot in equal measure. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional