Industrial Chart of Liberty 19th Century Size:24x36 Alexander Hamilton 1932 — a

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

drawn with the patient precision of an engineer who knew this river demanded a steady

and the slow alchemy of barrel time

19th Century — the Philippine military governor rendered in the stiff officer's portraiture of a republic newly in the empire business

and the breweries along Pestalozzi Street smoking through the river haze of a city that once called itself the Gateway

Industrial Chart of Liberty 19th Century Size:24x36 Alexander Hamilton 1932 — aIndustrial Chart of Liberty 19th Century renders the Republic as a balance sheet of smokestacks and rolling mills, liberty recast in the iconography of foundries and freight a chromolithograph that mistakes prosperity for proof, and draws the argument anyway in confident, ornamented ink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical