Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861-1897 Denver_Broncos_Print The Fast Mail 1875 —

The Fast Mail 1875 — a chromolithograph of locomotion at full throttle

Every crater rim and shadowed basin reads like masonry — the firmament's broken cathedral

stitched together in spun steel

July 4th 1776–1876 — a Centennial engraving that gathers fifty-six faces and their inked hands into one civic constellation

the river below them already a Union artery

Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861-1897 Denver_Broncos_Print The Fast Mail 1875 —Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861 1897 a portrait of the Mississippi minister who, in 1870, became the first Black man seated in the United States Senate, occupying the very chair once held by Jefferson Davis. The image carries the quiet audacity of Reconstruction's brief promise. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,