Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847 sabine bank art and lantern-room sightline was drawn

and lantern-room sightline was drawn against the certainty that the shoals would try to take it back

Alexander Hamilton and the Grange

rendered in the sober lithographic register reserved for men whose vocations crossed both ocean and color line in the long aftermath of the war

and his march back to Virginia under federal bayonets

Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847 sabine bank art and lantern-room sightline was drawnBenjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847. A mid century lithograph that resurrects the Sage of Philadelphia for a Republic well past his own Franklin rendered in the iconography the antebellum era loved best, half philosopher, half founder, summoned to remind an expanding nation of the mind that helped invent it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National