Heroes of the Colored Race 1883 Size:36x24 Grant at the Capture of

Grant at the Capture of the City of Mexico — a documentary engraving of the young lieutenant amid the smoke of 1847

The sheet renders labor's brief

and the steady gaze of an officer who had outlived the War of 1812 to become its living monument

the others orbiting him like satellites of a defeated star

Heroes of the Colored Race 1883 Size:36x24 Grant at the Capture ofHeroes of the Colored Race, 1883 a chromolithograph of Frederick Douglass flanked by Senators Blanche Bruce and Hiram Revels, ringed by vignettes of Black Americans claiming their place in the republic less than two decades after emancipation. It is the work of remembrance and assertion, both at once. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional