TWITTER WATCH: HAMILTON's Lin-Manuel Miranda Photographed In Costume Using 1839 Lens

A year ago on this date, there were probably quite a bit fewer members of the theatre community that noticed it to be the birthday of founding father Alexander Hamilton than there are today. The man mostly responsible for that phenomenon is, of course, composer/lyricist/actor Lin-Manual Miranda, who, a year ago on this date, was a bright star in the Broadway community but not highly known elsewhere.

But thanks to the musical that has become one 2015's most dominant stories in American art, Miranda is now a nationally known figure whose work has received public praise from historians, the pop music industry and President Barack Obama. Ron Chernow's 2005 biography, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, which served as the musical's inspiration, is once again a best seller.

So naturally, on this 261st, or perhaps 259th birthday of Alexander Hamilton (the exact year is unknown), the latest in the musical's series of portraits taken by photographer Josh Lehrer using his 1839 lens is of Mr. Write himself, Lin-Manuel Miranda as the nation's first Secretary of The Treasury.

Previous subjects for vintage HAMILTON portraits include Daveed Diggs as Thomas Jefferson (click here), Andrew Rannells as King George III (click here), Christopher Jackson as George Washington (click here), Leslie Odom, Jr. as Aaron Burr (click here), Renee Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler (click here), Anthony Ramos as John Laurens (click here), Okieriete Onaodowanas James Madison (click here), Phillipa Soo as Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (click here) and Javier Munoz as Alexander Hamilton (click here).

From the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning In The Heights comes a wildly inventive new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: AlexanderHamilton. Tony and Grammy Award winnerLin-Manuel Miranda wields his pen and takes the stage as the unlikely founding father determined to make his mark on a new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is.

From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelongHamiltonfriend and foe,Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become. Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail directs this new musical about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.

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