Andrew Johnson and Others, 1865-1869 old wisconsin map 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 Maid of the Mist

It is less a map than an ephemeris of longing

its first-order Fresnel apparatus and keeper's quarters platted with the patience of men who knew this stretch of Pacific had already swallowed the names carved into its charts

Evolution of the African Race 19 belongs to a didactic print tradition that sought to chart Black American life in panels and plates — a chromolithograph plate that bears the weight of how the nineteenth century insisted on narrating a people whose story was already being told by themselves

Andrew Johnson and Others, 1865-1869 old wisconsin map The Cosmic Mirror Smith's CelestialAndrew Johnson and Others, 1865 1869. A group portrait from the bruised years following Appomattox, when the accidental president and his contemporaries quarreled over the terms of a reunited republic impeachment looming, the Fourteenth Amendment fresh ink, the South still smoldering beneath federal occupation. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,