Burns Monument, the McPherson Gift, Albany NY 1888 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame when the South had begun

when the South had begun the slow alchemy of turning its defeated commander into marble

19th Century — a portrait of the man dispatched from a peninsula still half-wilderness

Andrew Johnson 19th Century — a portrait of the tailor from Greeneville who inherited Lincoln's chair and a fractured Union

mansard roofs and arched windows announcing that the federal government had arrived in the metropolis to stay

sponge docks

Burns Monument, the McPherson Gift, Albany NY 1888 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame when the South had begunBurns Monument, the McPherson Gift, Albany NY 1888 a Gilded Age civic offering in bronze and granite, the Scottish bard installed in Washington Park by the bequest of Mary McPherson, who insisted Albany's immigrant memory be carved into its public ground. 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