First Landing at Gorahama 1856 Framed_MT_Bank Alexander Hamilton 1932 — a

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

William Buel Franklin

when the country was hollowed by Depression and the new president told a frightened nation that fear itself was the enemy worth naming

surrounded by the wife and children whose fortunes were bound to a rebellion already collapsing

smoke pouring from the Capitol's old west front while clerks hauled volumes into the cold air

First Landing at Gorahama 1856 Framed_MT_Bank Alexander Hamilton 1932 — aFirst Landing at Gorahama 1856 documents an American footfall on Japanese soil in the wake of Perry's black ships, when the republic's reach across the Pacific was still a fresh and audacious thing. The scene carries the quiet swagger of Manifest Destiny extended to saltwater a treaty port rendered as overture rather than conquest. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the