The portrait captures Hamilton’s stature in her middle age in she helped to found the school in 1806, know then as the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York. Huntington had hung on the walls of the Graham School out of view from the public eye. She debuted her short documentary about the project, called Sharing Our Stories: The Eliza Project.įrom the early 1900s, the mid-19th century oil painting portrait of Eliza Hamilton by Daniel P.

This included Morgan Marcell, a member of the original Hamilton cast and co-founder of The Eliza Project, a collaboration in which cast members lead artistic workshops at Graham Windham.

To commemorate the donation, a panel of those involved gathered Monday morning at the museum to speak about the significance of the objects and the work being done. “Philanthropy isn’t just about giving money.” “The donations will really capture the diversity of ways Americans give time, talent and treasure to philanthropic causes,” Moniz says. The donated objects, which also includes other photographs and pamphlets related to the orphanage, will help visitors understand the “whole ecosystem of philanthropy” that has developed between Hamilton and Graham Windham through The Eliza Project, says the museum's curator of the initiative Amanda B. The museum says it will put the costume on view next March. A portrait of Elizabeth Hamilton from Graham Windham and one of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton costumes joined the museum’s collections as part of its Philanthropy Initiative. Now, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will play a part in telling her story.

“In their eyes I see you, Alexander,” she sings to her dead husband, once an orphan himself. After her husband died, she spoke out against slavery and raised money to build the Washington Monument, but she says her proudest accomplishment has been helping to establish the first private orphanage in New York City, now known as Graham Windham. In the final song of Hamilton: An American Musical, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story,” Eliza Hamilton wonders if people will remember her and her famous husband, Alexander.

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