Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 chef_definition regimental colors arranged with the

regimental colors arranged with the cool taxonomy of a plate that knew these banners had already passed from rallying cry into relic

September 1899 — the hero of Manila Bay rendered in commemorative gravity

Captain Wilkes 1862 — a portrait of the Union officer whose seizure of Confederate envoys from the British mail packet Trent the previous November had nearly dragged Lincoln's beleaguered republic into a second war

The Keepers Blueprint Baltimore Harbor Light Station Plans of 1885 charts the caisson-set sentinel that would rise from the soft Patapsco bottom — a pneumatic foundation sunk through Chesapeake silt

Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 chef_definition regimental colors arranged with theEminent 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,