The Gallant Capt. Walker of the Texan Rangers Who Fell at the Battle of Huamantla on the 9th of October 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 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

The scene reads like a society column rendered in silver gelatin

These linen postcards trade in eternal afternoons

before Buffalo

or a kitchen that takes its beer seriously

The Gallant Capt. Walker of the Texan Rangers Who Fell at the Battle of Huamantla on the 9th of October 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Alexander Hamilton 1896 — aThe Gallant Capt. Walker of the Texan Rangers Who Fell at the Battle of Huamantla on the 9th of October 1847 a memorial lithograph for Samuel Walker, the Ranger captain whose death in a Mexican plaza became one of those small, useful martyrdoms by which Manifest Destiny bought its own mythology. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical