Burns Monument, the McPherson Gift, Albany NY 1888 gift_for_programmer his Black Jack moustache and

his Black Jack moustache and soldier's bearing carrying the weight of Atlanta and the founding of Decoration Day into the marble corridors of Gilded Age politics

and lantern-room sightline was drawn against the certainty that the shoals would try to take it back

where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin

his likeness pressed back into civic service when the Republic needed its founding griefs to steady a generation marching toward Belleau Wood

Nadac is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

Burns Monument, the McPherson Gift, Albany NY 1888 gift_for_programmer his Black Jack moustache andBurns Monument, the McPherson Gift, Albany NY 1888 a Gilded Age civic offering in bronze and granite, the Scottish bard installed in Washington Park by the bequest of Mary McPherson, who insisted Albany's immigrant memory be carved into its public ground. 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 lithographic publishers