Peerless Colored Americans 198 Size:24x36 Sam L Southard Senator From

Sam L Southard Senator From New Jersey 1838 — a Senate-floor portrait of the New Jersey Whig at the height of his second turn in Washington

like the Confederacy itself

The Parker Wine Cooler Patent of 1893 reads like the engineering of a pour — the lever

Lake Michigan at the eastern edge

when the House floor rang with tariff quarrels and the slow-burning question of the territories — a likeness rendered with the studied composure expected of a Southern gentleman addressing the nation

Peerless Colored Americans 198 Size:24x36 Sam L Southard Senator FromPeerless Colored Americans 198 belongs to a commemorative tradition that gathered the faces of Black achievement into a single illustrated roster ministers, soldiers, statesmen, and orators rendered with the dignity that postbellum America so often refused them in the street. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the