Building the cradle of liberty / J.L.G. Ferris.

Andrew Hamilton, with a young woman on one arm and an elderly woman on the other, discusses construction plans with a foreman during the construction of Independence Hall (shown in the background) in Philadelphia sometime between 1732 and 1740; Hamilton's carriage stands to the right.
K17401 U.S. Copyright Office.

Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation.
No. 12.
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