American Order of United Mechanics 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame where tenement laundry sagged above

where tenement laundry sagged above pushcarts and a thousand accents jostled for daylight

well-mannered pride

Alexander Hamilton 1896 — a Gilded Age portrait reaching backward across a century to claim the architect of the Treasury as patron saint of American finance

and Jackson's long shadow

the river below them already a Union artery

American Order of United Mechanics 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame where tenement laundry sagged aboveAmerican Order of United Mechanics, 19th Century. A fraternal emblem from the nativist workingmen's lodges that flourished in the shadow of antebellum immigration debates compass, arm and hammer, and flag arranged in the moral arithmetic of Protestant labor declaring itself the rightful heir of the republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional