Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847 sabine bank art Ancient Order of United Workmen

Ancient Order of United Workmen 1892 — a fraternal emblem from the age when laboring men insured one another against catastrophe through ritual and lodge dues

and his march back to Virginia under federal bayonets

Abraham Lincoln 1918 — a Great War-era remembrance of the martyred president

Alexander Hamilton and the Grange

Benjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847 sabine bank art Ancient Order of United WorkmenBenjamin Franklin the Statesman and Philosopher 1847. A mid century lithograph that resurrects the Sage of Philadelphia for a Republic well past his own Franklin rendered in the iconography the antebellum era loved best, half philosopher, half founder, summoned to remind an expanding nation of the mind that helped invent it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National