Millard Fillmore Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1848 boulderer_artwork Alexander Hamilton 1896 — a

Alexander Hamilton 1896 — a Gilded Age portrait reaching backward across a century to claim the architect of the Treasury as patron saint of American finance

Shall Remain Free

The likeness is rendered in the sober line-work of an era that knew it was watching history happen

its twelve houses engraved with the old conviction that a soul's hour of birth was inked somewhere between Aries and Pisces

Oct 5th 1813 (1841) — a documentary engraving issued nearly three decades after the Shawnee confederacy collapsed in the Ontario mud

Millard Fillmore Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1848 boulderer_artwork Alexander Hamilton 1896 — aMillard Fillmore Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1848 a campaign lithograph rendered in the cautious dignity the Whigs preferred, presenting the Buffalo lawyer as Zachary Taylor's running mate in the season when the Mexican War's spoils had begun to fracture every party that touched them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,