George Washington 1896 Vintage LA Wall Art what its own founding sentences

what its own founding sentences meant

when the republic paused mid-stride to take stock of its first hundred — a chromolithograph engineered for parlors hungry to commemorate survival

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

his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence

confident in a union not yet asked to prove itself

George Washington 1896 Vintage LA Wall Art what its own founding sentencesGeorge Washington 1896 a late century commemorative portrait of the first president, issued nearly a hundred years after his death, when the Republic had survived its second great rupture and turned again to the founders for the iconography of endurance. 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