2-547-847 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Statue of Daniel Webster, Central Park, New York, USA, late 19th or early 20th century. Webster (1782-1852) was a United States senator and Secretary of State. In 1842 he was instrumental in the drafting of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which resolved the tensions that had built up between the United States and Britain over the Caroline Affair, an incident during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. The treaty definitively established the eastern part of the frontier between Canada and the US. Stereoscopic card. Detail.