Robert Carter Nicholas Senator From Louisiana 1849 NY_Mets_Print with the branches of government

with the branches of government and the roster of states arranged like names in a Bible's flyleaf

and any space that marks the moment America stepped onto the world stage as an empire of its own

when the country was busy translating its battlefield victors into civic statuary and presidential timber

These postcards carry the soft red-clay light of the Piedmont and the slow-drawl confidence of a southern capital learning to wear skyscrapers

Robert Carter Nicholas Senator From Louisiana 1849 NY_Mets_Print with the branches of governmentRobert Carter Nicholas Senator From Louisiana 1849 an engraved portrait of the Virginian transplant who held his seat in the closing months before the Compromise debates, his likeness fixed in the steady, sober line of antebellum statecraft as the Union strained against its own expansion. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical