American Historical Portrait Gallery 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The word Late does the

The word Late does the heaviest lifting — a single adjective announcing a republic suddenly without its steward

Alexander Hamilton 1932 — a Depression-era commemorative likeness of the first Treasury Secretary

rendered with the ceremonial gravity the Gilded Age reserved for its rituals — a republic still binding its post-war wounds

the locomotive stopped mid-route while bystanders gather at a respectful distance to watch the smoke rise

Wrigley Field Original Design from Bella Frye

American Historical Portrait Gallery 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The word Late does theAmerican Historical Portrait Gallery 19th Century assembles the engraved faces of a republic still arguing with itself statesmen, generals, and presidents arrayed in the steel point manner of the parlor album, each visage rendered with the solemn finish that the nineteenth century reserved for men it wished to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National