In Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Cosmic Mirror Smith's Celestial

The Cosmic Mirror Smith's Celestial Sphere With Earth at Center places our small blue world at the heart of a gridded firmament

The scene reads like a society column rendered in silver gelatin

published a generation after emancipation when Black congressmen were already being legislated back out of the rooms they had earned

His likeness was printed for a Union public hungry for a face to fix the opening shot upon

fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary

In Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Cosmic Mirror Smith's CelestialIn Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 a commemorative print marking the fall of Richmond and Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the two April mornings that closed the ledger on four years of national bloodletting. The engraver's laurel is fresh, the ink still triumphant, before the country had time to learn what peace would cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive