John Amory Lowell 1895 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered here in the brass-and-braid

rendered here in the brass-and-braid formality of a war's final year — a portrait of a man the Union both promoted and forgave

A 20th-century rendering of Hamilton's Harlem country seat — the federalist's retreat from pamphlet wars and Treasury ledgers

1836 — a posthumous portrait of the republic's most unrepentant heretic

the Pennsylvania jurist whom the Senate would refuse to confirm

Garfield on the East Portico

John Amory Lowell 1895 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered here in the brass-and-braidJohn Amory Lowell 1895 a late century portrait of the Boston Brahmin merchant and trustee, rendered in the dignified manner reserved for men whose fortunes shaped textile mills and library endowments alike. The image carries the quiet gravity of Gilded Age Massachusetts, where commerce wore the face of civic duty. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,