"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."--Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage, 1878. From the series Great Ideas of W

Ah-móu-a, The Whale, One of Kee-o-kúk's... George Catlin

Centennaire de l'Independence Belge, obv... Josue Dupon

General Duff Green Hiram Powers

Dr. James G. Playfair Hiram Powers

Red Columbine (Aquilegia formosa) Mary Vaux Walcott

John C. Calhoun Clark Mills