Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 sacramento_antique General Douglas MacArthur 20th Century

General Douglas MacArthur 20th Century — a press-photograph likeness of the young officer whose name would outgrow the century that produced him

1868 — a domestic lithograph staged in the year the general traded epaulets for the presidency

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

the date insists on grief

surveyed by Victorian astronomy as both geometry and elegy

Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 sacramento_antique General Douglas MacArthur 20th CenturyEminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886. Issued in the long aftermath of emancipation, this lithograph honors the AME bishop and Ohio legislator among a pantheon of Black leaders a portrait drawn in the sober register of a generation insisting, against the receding promise of Reconstruction, on being seen. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,