Hobson of Alabama 1899 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Ready to hang

Ready to hang

Benjamin Harrison Republican Candidate for President 1888

their portraits arranged like a roll call of survivors twenty years past Appomattox

The drawing reads like a quiet argument in stone: that a young nation could shoulder the Atlantic if it built tall enough

The greeting cards lean hard into open space

Hobson of Alabama 1899 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Ready to hangHobson of Alabama 1899 a press portrait of Richmond Pearson Hobson fresh from the sinking of the Merrimac at Santiago, the young naval lieutenant returning to his home state already wearing the laurel of empire's first hero, his face arranged for a republic newly enamored with its own bravado. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical