Groton Monument 19th Century framed sports art The likeness carries the weight

The likeness carries the weight of a man who outlived his own legend and refused to soften it

more than any other

American Presidents First Hundred Years 1776-1876 arrays the chief executives from Washington to Grant in a centennial chromolithograph

Alexander Hamilton 198 renders the Treasury's first architect in the careful linework reserved for men whose ideas outlived their duels — the West Indian orphan who argued a national bank into being and signed his Federalist essays with the cool nerve of someone who knew the republic's ledgers would decide its fate

The postcards favor red barns at harvest

Groton Monument 19th Century framed sports art The likeness carries the weightGroton Monument 19th Century renders the granite obelisk raised above Fort Griswold, where Connecticut militiamen fell to Benedict Arnold's raiders in 1781 an engraving in the patient idiom of post war commemoration, when stone was the chosen vocabulary for grief still owed. 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