Alexander Hamilton 1896 Framed Transit Art captain's rooms

captain's rooms

Alexander Anderson

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

Abraham Lincoln President of the United States 19th Century — a 19th-century portrait of the rail-splitter turned commander-in-chief

his uniform still the country's surest argument

Alexander Hamilton 1896 Framed Transit Art captain's roomsAlexander Hamilton 1896 a Gilded Age portrait reaching backward across a century to claim the architect of the Treasury as patron saint of American finance, his likeness reissued at the very moment Wall Street was learning the scale of its own ambitions. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers