Alexander Hamilton Born 1755 Died 1804 1896 soldier_artwork Grant 1877 — the general

Grant 1877 — the general turned president rendered in the twilight of his second term

George Sound meets the Gulf — every iron pile

drawn for a city still learning that industry's promise carried its own concussive bill

and the unshakable human desire to soar

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 5 — a portrait engraving of the wartime president

Alexander Hamilton Born 1755 Died 1804 1896 soldier_artwork Grant 1877 — the generalAlexander Hamilton Born 1755 Died 1804 1896 a centennial era commemorative portrait of the Treasury's first architect, issued in 1896 when Gilded Age America had grown rich enough to mythologize the immigrant clerk who built its credit, and to forgive him the duel that ended him on the Weehawken bluffs. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional