Oliver Wendell Holmes 1894 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Alexander Hamilton 198 renders the

Alexander Hamilton 198 renders the Treasury's first architect in the careful linework reserved for men whose ideas outlived their duels — the West Indian orphan who argued a national bank into being and signed his Federalist essays with the cool nerve of someone who knew the republic's ledgers would decide its fate

smoke pouring from the Capitol's old west front while clerks hauled volumes into the cold air

Battle of Kenesaw Mountain

Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 — a mourning lithograph that compresses a life into two dates and a title

A portrait drawn from the years when Clay's voice still moved the Senate and the Union it strained to hold together

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1894 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Alexander Hamilton 198 renders theOliver Wendell Holmes 1894. A late life portrait of the Boston physician poet in his eighty fifth year, rendered with the quiet reverence reserved for a last surviving Fireside Bard the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table grown silver, his Brahmin wit settled into elder statesman of American letters. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical