The Defenders of Faith of the Catholic Church and of the United States 1878 framed barber chair Tuskegee University

Tuskegee University

19th Century — a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography

with bunting and oratory

where the elevated tracks threw their iron shadow over saloons

Thaddeus Stevens 1838

The Defenders of Faith of the Catholic Church and of the United States 1878 framed barber chair Tuskegee UniversityThe Defenders of Faith of the Catholic Church and of the United States 1878 a chromolithograph that twins ecclesiastical heraldry with civic loyalty, arranging pontiffs and presidents into a single devotional grid for the immigrant parlors of a republic still negotiating its post war soul. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical