Thomas Jefferson’s Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin, lived long enough to be photographed in late 1840s: #LOC 
In this photograph, Gallatin looks like an 18th-century man who has stepped up to a window and is looking at the future.
Gallatin, who served as US Senator from Pennsylvania and Secretary off the Treasury, was born in Switzerland and his first language was French.
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