George Washington 1896 Vintage LA Wall Art Alexander Hamilton 1932 — a

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

in one shot

A lithograph of the Little Bighorn rendered in the romantic register the nation preferred — Custer upright amid the swirl

Spanish American Soldiers and Flags 1898 — a martial tableau from the year empire announced itself in Cuban heat and Manila harbor

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

George Washington 1896 Vintage LA Wall Art Alexander Hamilton 1932 — aGeorge 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