Alexander Hamilton Born 1755 Died 1804 1896 Fenway_Park_Wall when the Republic had begun

when the Republic had begun the slow

and any space drawn to the long sweep of American historical memory

Woodmen of the World Father JC Root 1890 — a fraternal portrait of Joseph Cullen Root

rendered in the dignified engraver's hand reserved for men who measured their words against Jefferson's shadow and the gathering storm over the banks

A portrait of the Confederacy's only president rendered in the year his government collapsed — ink and likeness preserved at the precise hinge where a rebellion became a memory

Alexander Hamilton Born 1755 Died 1804 1896 Fenway_Park_Wall when the Republic had begunAlexander Hamilton Born 1755 Died 1804 1896 a centennial era commemorative portrait of the Treasury's first architect, issued in 1896 when Gilded Age America had grown rich enough to mythologize the immigrant clerk who built its credit, and to forgive him the duel that ended him on the Weehawken bluffs. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional