Birds Eye View of the City of Columbia South Carolina 1872 Size:24x18 Alexander Hamilton 1932 — a

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

a turn-of-the-century exercise in civic remembrance that treats the flag less as cloth than as a chronicle of the nation that raised it

like a republic's

when the republic was busy canonizing its founders in lithograph and bronze

Andrew Jackson: Seventh President of the United States 1835-1837 — a portrait from the closing years of Old Hickory's second term

Birds Eye View of the City of Columbia South Carolina 1872 Size:24x18 Alexander Hamilton 1932 — aBirds Eye View of the City of Columbia South Carolina 1872 renders the Palmetto capital from an impossible aerial perch just seven years after Sherman's torches left it in ash a lithographer's quiet argument that the grid had been redrawn, the streets renumbered, and the South was being mapped back into the Union. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,