The Administrators of the United States Government at the Beginning of Its 2nd Century, 1877 Size:24x36 The Men of the Hour

The Men of the Hour 1919 gathers the architects of the postwar settlement in the brittle afterglow of the Armistice — a group portrait of statesmen and commanders posed with the unwelcome gravity of a republic that had crossed an ocean to bury its dead

where vocational classrooms and brick-laid quadrangles were offered as evidence that Black American advancement could be measured

the prelate rendered with the grave composure that Gilded Age Catholicism reserved for its American shepherds

rendered here in the fixed solemnity of a campaign-era portrait — a Jacksonian foot soldier elevated to the rostrum

Soldier Field Original Design from Bella Frye

The Administrators of the United States Government at the Beginning of Its 2nd Century, 1877 Size:24x36 The Men of the HourThe Administrators of the United States Government at the Beginning of Its 2nd Century, 1877 a centennial group portrait assembled in the Hayes inaugural year, when the Republic, freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction, paused to render its officeholders in the sober dignity of lithographed ranks. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National