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Daniel Webster 1852 — a portrait from the final year of the Massachusetts orator's life

A Victorian plate that treats orbital resonance as scripture

A portrait of the Brahmin reformer in his second act — Boston's mayor turned Harvard's helmsman

his likeness reissued at the very moment Wall Street was learning the scale of its own ambitions

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All United for Liberty! 1917 walla_walla_print Daniel Webster 1852 — aAll United for Liberty! 1917 a mobilization broadside from the spring America abandoned its old neutrality, the exclamation point doing the rhetorical labor of a nation suddenly conscripting itself into a European war. The slogan reads less like persuasion than instruction, the unwelcome grammar of a republic learning to speak in millions. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,