Joseph Hodges Choate 1915 xmas tree water patient hunger of saltwater

patient hunger of saltwater

A late-life portrait of the Boston physician-poet in his eighty-fifth year

their faces fixed in the composed stillness of men already passed into doctrine

The Tailors Instrument Melander Shears Patent is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

and protocol drawn with the quiet precision of a republic learning

Joseph Hodges Choate 1915 xmas tree water patient hunger of saltwaterJoseph Hodges Choate 1915. A late portrait of the great New York advocate and ambassador in the final year of his life, caught at the threshold of a war he had urged his countrymen to recognize the elder statesman's gravitas rendered as the republic itself was being forced into sober adulthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical