Chicago 1871 framed bureaucrat Henry Clay Jr

Henry Clay Jr

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Free Soil Candidate for Vice President 1848

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Chicago 1871 framed bureaucrat Henry Clay JrChicago 1871 a document of the year the city burned, when the lake wind carried embers across wooden boulevards and three hundred souls were lost to a fire that began, so legend insisted, in a barn on DeKoven Street. The image belongs to the smoldering ledger of an American metropolis learning to rebuild in brick and iron. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National