Alexander Hamilton 1896 Framed Transit Art The Death of the Gallant

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

Benjamin Franklin Butler 19th Century — a portrait of the Massachusetts lawyer turned Union general whose occupation of New Orleans earned him the nickname "Beast

his uniform still the country's surest argument

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Alexander Anderson

Alexander Hamilton 1896 Framed Transit Art The Death of the GallantAlexander Hamilton 1896 a Gilded Age portrait reaching backward across a century to claim the architect of the Treasury as patron saint of American finance, his likeness reissued at the very moment Wall Street was learning the scale of its own ambitions. 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